Re: [microsound] call for content | Digital Salvage v.1

[Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Flash has the potential to be as expressive as cinema (or at least
contemporary ideas of what defines cinema, according to Lev Manovich's
'Language of New Media' animation is just a subset of cinema as moving
image) but the environment in which most Flash based net art is viewed does
not confer the same reverence as a large projection in a theater.

-km


> There may be confusion as to what is meant by "new". Are we talking
> about a new idea or a new look? If your medium is flexible enough, you
> will always be able to bring about new ideas. I can't imagine how
> painting could reach a point where no more new ideas could be expressed
> through it. It may be, however, that something like Flash is not
> flexible enough to be expressive outside of a small realm.
> I don't know, I haven't used it.
> 
> -- jeremy avnet / brainsik .:. Public Key at http://brainsik.to/pubkey.asc