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aMAZEing web
Klaus Johannes Rusch
Original: PR_1995_klausrusch_001_o.jpg | 412 * 317px | 125.5 KB
The World Wide Web offers the observer an undreamed of source of possibilities to follow a thread of cobweb far away within fractions of a second, to discover more and different things than what he was actually looking for, to decide where to go, to change direction, to wander around, or more often, to get lost in a virtual maze. Many ways are dead ends, leading nowhere.
"aMAZEing web" is a metaphor for the inability to find one's way around on this network with its innumerable junctions, names at first glance, finally revealing their contents once the links have been followed. The observer gradually learns how to navigate through this web of unknowns, to dwell on a subject or to move on, without even knowing the actual correlations between the images seemingly related in a multidimensional space of attributes.
Guided by the selection of a spot on the image, which is the observer's expression of will, and by chance, "aMAZEing web" leads to a microcosm of images and thoughts, of the concrete and abstraction, of beauty and ugliness, and tempts the observer to get lost and find the way back again, to experience and to be aMAZEd.
Technical Background
HW: beliebig
SW: OS/2, CERN httpd, WebExplorer
Links: http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/aMAZEingweb
"aMAZEing web" is a metaphor for the inability to find one's way around on this network with its innumerable junctions, names at first glance, finally revealing their contents once the links have been followed. The observer gradually learns how to navigate through this web of unknowns, to dwell on a subject or to move on, without even knowing the actual correlations between the images seemingly related in a multidimensional space of attributes.
Guided by the selection of a spot on the image, which is the observer's expression of will, and by chance, "aMAZEing web" leads to a microcosm of images and thoughts, of the concrete and abstraction, of beauty and ugliness, and tempts the observer to get lost and find the way back again, to experience and to be aMAZEd.
Technical Background
HW: beliebig
SW: OS/2, CERN httpd, WebExplorer
Links: http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/aMAZEingweb
Klaus Johannes Rusch (A), born 1969. Education at the Cistercian College of Mehrerau, Bregenz. Studies in computer technology and economy in Vienna. First experience with World Wide Web 1994. First Web site 1995 ("The WWW Entertainment Package").