The laziness and ignorance are so willful as to be near-deliberate. Art in Technological Times , an exhibit by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that debuted online on January 1, 2001. Sorry, couldn't decide whether to laugh or curse. Artists have produced some of the most amazingly ugly and unusable sites on the web. Though the situation has improved over the last year, it's astonishing that people who work in symbols, beauty and expression can be so fucking oblivious to interface.
Art is first about communication.
The artist has an idea. These symbols range from dried sunflowers to images chemically bonded to paper by light broadcast through a piece of plastic to, most mutable of all, words, images or music rendered in electronic form. The artist then either makes this work available to the public or not. If it is made available the artist has some hope, however stifled, that some member or members of the public will examine the work and perceive the original idea buried in the medium. The very best art transcends the limitations of its audience and delivers a unique message which alters the participant's mind.