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Thoughts on Content

Some days this thing seems like such a fucking joke. This site, this whole web thing. What does it have to do with anything important, but why does it take up so much of my time? Why am I so obsessed with it? It dominates me, takes me over.

I read this month’s articles about content at digital web, and they seemed so flat to me. Stating the obvious: make your content good. Some articles were overly simple while bemoaning the same. I don’t mean to be harsh; I think what they do is great in general. But there was something about this month’s articles that betrayed a certain shallowness that so far has been an inherent part of this crazy medium.

I’ve found myself caring less and less about the design-oriented sites, and more and more about people’s stories. I find it strange and scary, even, that I’m caring less about visual presentation, although I suppose I’ve been headed down that road for some time, as I became more and more conceptual in my approach toward making art. And yet, I never abandoned the visual completely. And that’s the tension for me: between the visual and the conceptual/ structural and the technical. That’s maybe what makes this web medium so intriguing to me.

11/09/01 01:17PM Art Design Miscellany My Life