He tremulously extends a digit, do not be afraid, nothing will blow up, we laugh, we soothe, we encourage, and emboldened he presses down on the mouse. And Mosaic, damn it's its cute little whirling planet heart, crashes. The magazine is now on-line. I am happy, I am excited by a possibility, something that, were it not for the Internet and the hypermedia capabilities of a browser such as Mosaic on the WorldWide Web, would be, given the current cultural climate, impossible. The medium having no other message but itself.
Artists are cultural inventors, in a sense.
All contributing into the possibility of a whole, true interchange, a nascent culture in a new world without borders. In a culture such as this, artists of all disciplines take their rightful place, as equal contributors, for what is art but a sharing of information of a different sort, a contributing of skills of a different sort, an exchange of information of a different sort. That we may heal these very scars. That there may yet be hope for our survival as a species. Information accessible, available, and above all, free.