Word Artists

In my search for new and exciting word art/artists I have found the following interesting and nice websites. Some are more successful than others but as before the ideas are nice.

www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/thedumpster.htm

The Dumpster - I love the interface very organic/fluid motion of the bubbles. The data is scrapped from blogs using searches such as the words 'dumped' and 'broke up'.

Screen shot:

"The Dumpster." The Dumpster. Tate. 1 Nov 2007 .

Exquisite Copse - Nice idea you choose from a list of books and enter a word and a tree grows from sentences in the book with your chosen word in. Simple concept (not sure the programming is though).

http://www.devoid.co.uk/exquisitecopse/grow.html

Screen shot:



"Exquisite Copse." Exquisite Copse. Devoid. 1 Nov 2007 .

Digital Word Artists

During my research into digital and word based artists I have come across several sites that are of interest. They are not always as successful in reality as some of the concepts suggest:-


http://potatoland.org/landfill

The idea of this website is that people upload/dump any email documents, HTML code, SPAM into this art piece. You can then view all of the information placed there, like sifting through a giant digital dustbin. The reality of this project does not appear to be as good as the idea, you would expect to get interesting tit-bits of private thoughts, emails etc. but the reality is lots of spam/junk about viagra and things like that. It would be interesting to do something similar with photographs.

http://paintmywords.net

This is an interesting idea again and will be displayed at a few of the larger art galleries including Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art.

It is a collaborative art piece where anyone can participate by typing in the area available anything they want to be included into this art piece. You have a choice of whether you want your words to be displayed in red, green or blue lettering. The piece when complete will be printed on paper and then mounted on canvas.

I found that because of the website and the presentation of this project it is very difficult to see whether this is likely to be a successful idea or not. It is very hard to visualize and the time that it might take to complete this art piece may well result in a lack of interest.

http://drunkmenworkhere.org

This is a very busy and bizarre web experience. There are lots of digital art projects/concepts on this site, all a bit pointless but useful for killing time.