Artcrimes (2000) by Miklos Legrady RESPONSE

I was immediately intrigued by the title of this work. I thought it would be something like deforming conventional pieces of art that we all have seen into a way that would be offensive, thus the crime.

However, this work was more like a critique on the conventions of art. The piece of work is almost a complete website instead of just series of pictures or ideas. To understand the work, one must travel trough the website exploring and clicking the different sections of the website to find more content.

in the text that accompanies the work, the author seems to be making fun of the artistic conceptions that are created into art students in college. part of it seems to be the passiveness of audiences while looking at art.

This website seems to be achieving the complete opposite since it was really hard for me to understand what was begin said and just the simple navigation on a website, which is something I do everyday.

http://rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/2223/