For my multimedia project, I want to take a different angle.
Rather than tend toward traditional text-based media and then alter my content for the web, say by breaking up the text and organizing it via links, I want to create a supersaturated composite of information that is as logically frustrating as it is visually stimulating. I aim to capitalize upon readers’ short attention span by maximizing the fragmentation of my data/text.
The inspiration for such a creation comes from Radiohead’s older sites, archived by the band themselves here. My personal favorite is their oldest site, featuring a black background, and strange text/images woven into a labyrinthine mesh of corporate backwater.
While I agree with Nielson’s assertion of “links as guideposts,” I feel there is a certain futility to this semiotic system. Web signs point to other web signs but never to physical spaces, only their digitized replicas. As a result, the Internet is a house of cards held together only by itself. I want to compose a space that reflects the futility of finding direct information on the web and the entrapment of the device as a neverending tunnel.
This is not to say the Internet does not have useful aspects. Rather that I want to use this project as an artisitic criticism of the unusefulness of the Internet.
