I might be in a slow blogging phase as I don’t find a lot of tech news where my insight can be a real added value. But as I am completely diving into the subject of Net art (I am working on my thesis about it), I continue to share with you my great discoveries. TinyGrow is a flash toy created by Shinichiro Sato of box7box.com, which lets you create a virtual garden composed of surreal plants from surreal seeds you have to select and drop. It is amazingly captivating since colours and shapes are beautiful and you always wonder what will come next.
From the academical books I am reading about Net art, all the interest of those projects is the part of interaction with users. In this project the interaction is minimal: it is only some kind of “navigation”, as visitors don’t “add” anything to the project (text or images), unlike Mosaics or Typogenerator. However, it seems that you are really building your own garden and it manages to give the impression that interaction with the project is greater that it is, which is for me the real interest of this “game”.
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