Conceptual Art on the Internet: who's up for some code that makes your browser do amusing things?
You're right to be skeptical; depends on the concept. If it's one of those guys who wants to protest against, oh, Google's omnivorous appetite for your data, then it's possible he'll make your browser window go full screen, flash sickening colors at seizure-inducing speed, and make you play tag with a dialogue window that moves when you mouse over it. Has nothing to do with Google, but perhaps it will begin a conversation about data privacy, and provoke us to explore the relationship between two things whose relationship is obvious, and seems profound only to people with an exaggerated sense of their own creativity and intellect.
Then there's the modern artist with the perfect, and very real, name of Constant Dullart. His website says:
Deciding when to bricolage, that's the tricky part, isn't it. Well, this page has an account of his work. I clicked on his page. Let me show you what my history looks like after 30 seconds on his site:
Thanks, pal. Perhaps the website will be sold for millions of bitcoins in sixty years. When Ferdinand Leger started painting before WW1, he probably didn't think his work would be fetching millions. But the Daily Beast says:
Here's the work.
Eh. I like Leger's earlier Cubist work. The latter period: meh. It's possible his stylization of the human form was brilliant and revolutionary. It's also possible he just couldn't draw people.
Good Communist that he was, Leger turned down an offer to decorate Nelson Rockefeller's apartment, saying he would not eat the fruit of capitalism. Just kidding! He did the job. He also taught at Yale, where students would grapple with statements such as this: "the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. If, in turn, the human form becomes an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist."
