It’s de rigeur now to be not only to interact with art, but to play a part in making our art. is no longer something reserved for Happenings or circa 90’s New Media interactive installations, it’s something that has crossed over into a more accessible state, helped a great deal by the Internet. Point being, as observers and practitioners of creative content, we’re taking a giant leap forward right now: the user is God and content is king. What to contribute to though? What to create? What is of value any more?
Previously featured on Defunktion, Frank Warren’s Post Secret made its mark, not because anybody could contribute, regardless of artistic ability, but because the messages featured manage to touch a nerve, consistently. Spend 10 minutes at the Post Secret site and you’ll be reminded how fragile we really are, how twisted we get over the most trivial things, how sometimes we do the most awful things to ourselves and each other and how some of us are strong enough to spit in the eyes of horror and stamp on the toes of tragedy. Essentially, it’s comforting to know there’s people out there that are just as fucked up as ourselves.
Taking it’s cue from the Post Secret medium is MAiLmeART.com. Created by Darren Di Lieto, founder and editor of illustration portal LCSV4, the concept is short and sweet: send some mail to Di Lieto and use the envelope or package itself as the canvas:
“Submissions can be envelopes or packages which have been drawn on, painted , dipped in acid, covered in paper mache (anything you want really) but they must look amazing and they must have travelled though the post with the postman able to see the work.”
With slightly edgier edges comes Trent Reznor’s latest Nine Inch Nails album. While NiN certainly may not be to everyone’s taste, one still has to acknowledge that Reznor is instigating some very interesting stuff. Most recently he has released several tracks from the latest NiN long-player in GarageBand format, distributing them via the Internet, for free. For those with a Macbook and a penchant for industrial rock, we’re sure that remixing Rezner’s latest release will be a distinct pleasure. For the rest of us, we’ll stick to posting our dirty secrets to Frank Warren.
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