Appropriated Corpse
> To
the Corpse
A play on the Surrealist parlor game called the Exquisite Corpse, the Appropriated
Corpse was suggested to TalkBack! by artist Rudy Lemcke. This
experiment in interactivity offers site-visitors the opportunity to download
images by two dozen-or-so, well-known artists, modify those images and
e-mail them back to TalkBack! for (possible) inclusion
in an on-line exhibition. The Appropriated Corpse addresses the question
of what might constitute meaningful interactivity within both a medium predicated
on interactivity and a culture-of-couch-potatoes that simultaneously discourages
active and thoughtful participation. Is this a bold experiment in interactivity
or a banal gesture? In part, this depends on the response the project generates.
At this early stage in on-line cult ure, it's unclear how such an open-ended
project will turn out or even what criteria of evaluation--beyond that of
providing participants with genuine choices--are appropriate to it. Feedback,
please!
