Web Art is a new groundbreaking art form, which utilizes the internet
as a medium for art making. Above is a link to my humble attempt at this new and exciting medium.
Storyteller came about by obtaining content from the Deviant Art database, which holds art from
all different kinds of artists, mediums, and subjects. I chose a piece of text from a movie
I like called "The Boondock Saints", and began to try and tell that text in a different medium.
I took keywords from the text or story, and typed them in the Deviant Art search box. Then I
proceeded to take the best representational image, and link it to the text on my storyteller page.
Now if you scroll through the text with your mouse, you will see instant text and image storytelling
of that particular text. This idea of telling a story with not only text, but also representational
content from other databases is exciting, because you cannot get the same effect in any other medium.
This type of storytelling is compelling to me, because using art works from artists in combination
with an author's beautiful language, to create art on the web brings up many important questions.
In Foucault's "What is an Author" or Barthes "Death of an Author", we ask the same questions here.
Who is the true author of the work? The artists? Those that write the story? Myself? Or the many
other influences and assistants? This instant way of picture over text storytelling brings the reader
a much more creative read. It allows the reader to relate the text at first to their own memory, and
then the art work comes up to mix those thoughts in with the emotion of what the other artist intended.
This type of storytelling gives numerous layering and brings much more thought into the reader.
This art work should not only be based on the content, but the discovery of this unique way of storytelling.
With this discovery, more artists can decide to create art through this way and produce different emotion
with the art and text combination. It is a tool to lead the reader to feel what the artist wants them
to feel, and to come out with questions that will change their means of thinking.
-Max Gutnik
