weekly ONE

In my derive, I started out by exploring tig.ht, which is a collective of two media artists, Vince Mckelvie and Yung Jake. Their website contains links to their work, a lot of which is in webGL. There are two pieces that I particularly enjoyed, both of which have minimal interactivity. What I enjoyed about this was that the results are either drastic and destructive or subtle and calming. From there I was led to a piece that they made for adult swim where you can control the characteristics of a virtual man. Again, the user has limited interaction with the piece that results in either its total destruction or a productive growth. I continued to follow a few more trails on the internet and came across a completely separate piece called The Exquisite Forest. Unlike the other sites, this piece isn’t made by the artists in ti.ght but it follows a similar thought pattern. The piece invites the user to create basic animation, which then grow a tree that is full of these similar animations, all which are supposed to follow the rules of the tree. I really enjoyed looking through the trees and finding the drawings where people completely ignored the rules, thereby breaking the intent of the piece. All of these sites are works of media art that invite the user to participate in an either destructive or constructive way.