Portals to bring artworks together.
Anton Hecht
I make creative projects across artforms and media. The works often occur in public spaces. I use games or what can be termed Ludic structures. The work has been termed, at times, the Epic in the Everyday.
So have been developing due to the present circumstances a number of works that I terms portals. These are for different organisations, and for my own PhD final work. For participatory artworks, the notion of accumulation can be a force for creating something other from the components that you have. As in if you do an artwork that others contribute too, what do you have when you bring it all together, does something other emerge. One thing I have noticed is that these portals, working on a web site page, can be a good organising principle as to how the collected works are created. Meaning it can direct the manner that others contribute to fit into the final portal page. A portal page, because it leads in the work, it can be that it collects one aspect form all the works to display, but the further individual work is sourced upon clicking the image etc. It does also make use of the grid structure of web pages, and is like an interconnecting jigsaw. In this manner as well, it is what may be termed a spread rather than feed. This term means that the work is across the page, rather than a line of images that you scroll through. That the image is a collection of other images, seen on the page at the same time. I am finding it is a strong visual way to enable the collection of artefacts, made by others, to actually draw in an audience. I'd be really interested to know what others think, and how they are working today, especially those in participatory practices. Hope this helps. Also I think there is a lot to be developed in the use of gifs, rather than an image to link to a source video. They are active and moving and also website use them as image files so are more versatile on a web site.
This is a link to the 'Equal Arts' portal site, which is structured around A-Zs.
This is Doncaster Creates site, and features a portal as part of their Booker prize work, that seeks to show the breadth of interest in books in the town.
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