Firstly thanks to Rea for giving me this opportunity to write the odd article for AskReaMaor.com. I hope some readers will find some of my scribblings interesting as I cast them out into cyberspace.Â

There are movie critics that have called the art form they cover the seventh art. This I learned this winter while taking Film Theory as my minor in college. Without knowing what the other six arts were, or assuming they must be something like painting, writing, music, dance etc. I started wondering what the eighth art might be like. The future art. And if perhaps computers and the internet might become the new platform for this art. 

So I decided that would be the topic for my very first post here chez Rea Maor, and started researching. What might the other six arts be? Aha, my friendly neighborhood search engine has the answer, they are: Archery, Calligraphy, Charioteering, Mathematics, Music and Rites. Those were the six classes young people attended in 1122 BC in ancient china.

O.k., that threw a small wrench in my chain of thought but anyway. There have been many different types of surface, artist through the ages have displayed their ideas on. Starting with animal fat and plant coloring on cave walls, through clay and papyrus to paper, canvas, movie and television screens. Today there is the addition of the computer monitor.

Some have suggested computer games hold the clue to what will generally become the computerized family of art forms. Not only do computer games have their own distinct style in graphics and sound, representing the visual arts and music. They also include an element of the theater where players take on different roles and improvise a personal storyline within a particular world.

There are others titled internet artists as can be seen if looking at the nominees of last Webby Awards in the category of net art. Two of those offer a take on literature in the form of blog entries while still allowing for an element of interactivity.  

On wefeelfine.org surfers can navigate by emotionally laden keywords published in the blogosphere during the last few hours. A software scans the world’s blogs and picks up on words such as love, hate, angry, horny, sad, happy and so on. The visitor can focus in on different emotions and display them by various methods. Or so I remember, I visited that part of the site a year and a half ago and this time around something isn’t working right. I think its on my end though. Oh well. 

It’s quite o.k. because in stead I can take a look at the winner of the category in 2007,that is a direct reply to weefeelfine.org. This one, the dumpster, works in a similar way except this time around the blog entries picked deal exclusively with breakups and broken hearts. If the meaning of art lies in where it takes you, this one is spot-on for I left there feeling bitter sweet melancholy. Check it out, its worth it. 

That wraps it up for me, I’ll be posting here again sometime near the end of this month on some yet undecided topic,I’m leaning towards theology, religion and online deities’ but till then stay something profound, I’m still working on what my catch phrase will be.

TFH

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