SUMMARY

GENERATION FLASH looks at the phenomenon of Flash graphics on the Web
that attracted a lot of creative energy in the last few years. More than
just a result of a particular software / hardware situation (low
bandwidth leading to the use of vector graphics), Flash aesthetics
exemplifies cultural sensibility of a new generation [1]. This
generation does not care if their work is called art or design. This
generation is no longer is interested in "media critique" which
preoccupied media artists of the last two decades; instead it is engaged
in software critique. This generation writes its own software code to
create their own cultural systems, instead of using samples of
commercial media [2]. The result is the new modernism of data
visualizations, vector nets, pixel-thin grids and arrows: Bauhaus design
in the service of information design. Instead the Baroque assault of
commercial media, Flash generation serves us the modernist aesthetics
and rationality of software. Information design is used as tool to make
sense of reality while programming becomes a tool of empowerment [3].

(1/ 3):
Turntable and Flash Remixing
[for www.whitneybiennial.com ]

[Turntable is a web-based software that allows the user to mix in real-
time up to 6 different Flash animations, in addition manipulating color
palette, size of individual animations and other parameters. For
www.whitneybiennial.com, the participating artists were asked to submit
short Flash animations that were exhibited on the site both separately
and as part of Turntable remixes. Some remixes consisted from animations
of the same artists while others used animations by different artists.]

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