Urich Lau
Preface: the Desktop Museum
Increasingly, the computer has become one of the tools in the artist’s studio today, or of anyone as a matter of fact. It can be as essential as pencil and paper, but even the primary function of pencil and paper can be replaced by a keyboard, monitor and writing software.
The artist’s computer performs the daily tasks of e-mailing and writing letters and proposals, and saving pictures and videos of artworks for documentation purposes, and even as an artist’s tool in making art. Countless ventures can be done by sitting at the desk with the Internet serves as the definitive travelling guide for the qwerty-inclined, as an instantaneous channel for information and imagination throughout the cyberspace.
Furthermore, what good is the Internet if it is not for an outlet for the artist’s exposition? The website is a liberating album for art and ideas. All you need to show your work is probably a name card with the Universal Resource Locator (URL), and the audience can log on to an express visit at the “desktop museum”.
Technology has always dictated …