Joseph Squire, a member of the UIUC art department, very directly looks to the Web as a site for the creation of
art experiences. Like an artist creating earthworks or an installation in a physical space, he has "sized up the Web"
and devised projects appropriate to its architecture. Squire also brings one element often lacking in art projects on
the World Wide Web, emotion. His project, the place, brings personal experience into a collective realm through
the Internet, however it remains intimate, thoughtful and provocative. Squire offers personal vulnerability within a
medium that too often attracts bravado and where technical virtuosity is applauded over sustained artistic
production.
It will be interesting when artists begin to collaborate on the NET -- where the collaborative elements could be
served from anywhere, resolving the artwork only on the viewers monitor. It will be a new experience for artists and
audience alike, an a new definition of authorship.
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