I am currently starting a thesis on “the democratization of contemporary art” (theme will probably evolve a lot), which is mandatory to graduate from HEC. It is a great theme, highly linked with Internet evolutions.
So I have decided to find and promote on this blog all types of art that are Internet-related.
For this first article of the serie “Pieces of art”, I have found a really cool app giving you a visual reprensentation of your website. So this pictures represents A Fresh Start (up).
Of course there is an explanation. Here is what the colors stand for:
blue: for links (the A tag),
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags),
green: for the DIV tag,
purple: for images (the IMG tag),
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags),
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags),
black: the HTML tag, the root node,
gray: all other tags.
But what is more amazing is how this type of art, based on the creativity of developer who has probably no “standard” art skills (correct me if I’m wrong), is how rapidly it has spread. More than 2,000 “websites as graphs” are registered on Flickr, you can check it here; some websites’ visual representations are really amazing, I am quite jealous actually!
So should I try to make an interesting blog or just a “beautiful” one 
?
If you have other examples of Internet-related art, please let me know and I will definitely write about them!
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[...] Will virtual worlds contribute to democratize art? Filed under: user-generated content, Globalization, USA, innovation, Internet — Fidji SIMO @ 9:32 pm I am really interested by how Internet contributes to give everyone access to art, being by stimulating new types of artistic creation or new types of artistic presentation. [...]
[...] I have found another initiative about getting a visual representation of your website, directly inspired by the previous initiative I mentioned “websites as graphs”. This time, WEB2DNA displays the “DNA” of your website. It also has a coding explanation but it is really obscure for me, so I just leave you admire this other art initiative. The picture represents of course A Frest Start (up)’s DNA. And you can find other websites’ DNA here. [...]