| DAKOTA is based on a close reading
of Ezra Pound’s Cantos part I and part II. At first, we didn’t realize we were creating an animation. But it
seems that by a certain new-media-art definition of things, when you use Flash you’re
doing animation. Someone suggested recently that we’re doing motion graphics –
O.K., except we don’t really use graphics, just the Monaco font.
We came upon moving text because we wanted
a website, but quickly discovered we didn’t know – or care to know – how
web designers created online graphics, colors, photos, illustrations, and text. Frankly,
we dislike graphic design, and we also dislike interactivity, which are the two staples of
web design, if not the web itself. Being artists, we like to do things wrong, or at least
our own damn way. We ended up with a moving text synchronized to jazz, which was (and
still is) all we could do.
Young-hae Chang
}Marc Voge |
