Galleries are so terribly passe. It's a new age out there, people, and you can either create art yourself on your computer, or heaps of other people have created art solely for your consumption on the internet.
- Fractals. Check out some fractal websites. There are some absolutely awesome sites out there, and you can spend hours playing around with them.
- Check out pictures of the classics online. Sure, you could go and line up at the tate, stand for ages surrounded by shuffling coughing tourists and their brat children just to stand in front of that tiny picture of the Mona Lisa for ten seconds before the crowds jostle you along, or you could find an awesome digital photo of it online and appreciate it on your flatscreen I know which one I'd go for.
- Sidewalk art. They're all the rage to email round to your friends, and the light's always right in the pictures. You know, those huge chalk optical illusions that people draw on city streets? Check them out instead.
- Manga. There is some great stuff online. If you're into that kind of thing.
- Graphic novels aslo render beautifully on a good screen. And it keeps you entertained, the way the Mona Lisa just doesn't.
- Optical illusions. It's awesome what computers can do.
- CGI. Okay, so you may not be pixar, but you can still drool over what they achieve...
- You can create your own art. Animation, playing graphically with the classics, doing your own thing... there are heaps of programs dedicated to this.
- You can be just as creative, if not more creative, with technology as with a paintbrush and a lump of clay. And when it comes to computer graphics, you are only limited by your imagination. Just get out there and play, and look at what other people have done.
- Remember, all the technology makes the whole art situation democratic. You don't have to be rich and famous to be exhibited. You just need a website. And that doesn't mean that the people who aren't in galleries aren't talented. Seriously.
