FUTURIST GUIDE TO THE WEB (2002.6)

Futurist Guide to the Web is a compilation of digital works from artists and design firms worldwide. Covering the spectrum from commercial design to digital art-for-art's-sake, discovers emerging design trends,featuring the latest in Web graphics and animation. The main focus is to forge a link between " non-motion " and "motion". Thirty artists, representing diverse methods and subject matters in Web graphics; were interviewed by e-mail about their style. (plus Music Sound track and Video CD)

Futurist's Guide to the Web / WANG Chun-Chi (2001)

Futurist's guide to the web is a compilation of cutting edge digital works from artists and design firms worldwide. In the spectrum from commercial design to digital art-for=art's sake futurist's guide to the web discovers emerging design trends featuring latest in the web graphics and animation. The combination of renounced stras of digital design as well as talented comers from northern America, Asia and Europe make new futurist's guide to the web a must have stylistic reference of web design trends today and visual strategies of tomorrow.

In the twentieth-first century we know a great deal about information. We have learned how to compress it digitally. How to pipe it into homes via satellite communications and terrestrial broadcasting. And how to package it in forms that people understand in words, pictures, diagrams, films, print and music. We have developed intimate systems, such as the computer network, enabling people to exchange information around the world. And we look for new ways do communicate.

Futurist's guide to the web is a compilation of digital works from artists and design firms worldwide, covering the spectrum from commercial design to digital art-for-art's sake, net vision discovers emerging design trends, featuring the latest in web graphics and animation the main focus is the forge a link between "non-motion" and "motion". Thirty artists, representing diverse methods and subject matters in web graphics; were interviewed by e-mail about their style. The combination of renowned stars of digital design as well as talented new comers from north America, Asia and europe is the basic of as a net vision stylistic reference of web design trends today and visual strategies of tomorrow.

Futurist's guide to the web presents numerous relationships within animation-between analog and digital, graphic form and 3-D animation, and commercial and experimental, focusing this book is a small network of design-driven sites that will focus on high-end design and conceptual solutions to graphic communication.

All the portfolio section displays thumbnails of largely self-generated projects, elaborating on an aesthetic that imagines display systems might conceivably look like in the future. Regard the browser with in that, because the browser is the first program that has the "view source"- function, so you can look under the screen surface and the code layer becomes readable. It comes from times the web was fighting for popularity and the first mosaic.

These artists are the home of the freelance designer, free in the sense of exploration of abstract design and artworks with audio expressions. Pass offerings dealt with an aggressive need to find their own style and break away from the work others were doing, while also expressing emotions via design, These sites offer cris graphics, great interactive design and a good sense of diversity and simplicity. These sites have particularly interesting compositions, bird sounds in the background an moving things on the screen create a different environment.

The use of script on flash sites and also the conceptualization of these sites are almost of the future. We believe that the net is changing substantially soon. It will all be a lot quicker and there will be a hug increase in possibilities. Now, I am working on a new book provisionally titled net motion. I am also working on various practical projects in digital media. You can call them art li call them experiments. For me, new media opens up so many new possibilities, only some of which have been explored so far. Everybody who works with digital media, web designers, artists, photographers, architects, DJS on a more academic site, everybody, regardless of her or his background, who things that computerization and the internet art transforming our culture. Is past of these possibilities. The continuing discussions that art sharing them.