Web Art

‘Vorn is an artwork in flux. Every five minutes it scours thousands of weblogs, searching for the four most recently posted pictures that begin with the letters 'V', 'O', 'R', 'N'. Every five minutes, Understanding Vorn changes, filled with fresh words and pictures from the blogosphere.

The harsh impermanence of this system stands in stark contrast to a magazine, which is obsessed with collecting and archiving. UNDERSTANDING VORN is about experiencing and forgetting, reflecting the transient intangibility of the online reality. From the chaos can emerge extreme ugliness and extreme beauty, but the lack of premeditation makes it all very human. Understanding VORN has seen suicide notes, sex pictures, and love letters, but these poignant moments inevitably get swallowed by time, as the program advances, obsessed with finding what's new.

Currently, UNDERSTANDING VORN culls its data from Flickr, and from over 800,000 LiveJournal weblogs, whose authors are primarily teenagers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Russia. Take their posts for what they are: the spontaneous musings of teens given a platform to speak their minds. The posts are often silly, sometimes sad, sometimes scary, occasionally moving, but always very candid, very real.’

The rich content of the web use for Art: random, surprise, but also very personal with the blogs, it’s very web specific finally…

Vorn est une œuvre d’art interactive, qui cherche toute les 5 minutes les lettres V O R N dans le web afin de mettre des photos en perspectives…

Le contenu très dense d’internet utilisé dans une œuvre d’art, c’est surprenant, aléatoire mais surtout très personnel avec les blogs… très web en fait…