*You've got to be very net.art to be into the tall weeds of this interesting discussion, but I'm very net.art.
Pleasant to hear from Alexei Aleksey Aleksei etc
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Josephine Bosma: Form Art was one of many experiments you did with the internet. How do you look back on it?
Alexei Shulgin: It has become one of the most popular of my net projects of that time. This was probably because it focused on the (for that time) new aesthetics of the web interface. I made it during a residency at C3 in Budapest in May 1997. The C3 residency was a great opportunity—the perfect conditions for working on this project, for which I had already quite a clear idea of what I wanted to do. The idea to do a formalist project like Form Art came after I went through a period of jealousy towards Jodi, who were so great in doing that.
I had those buttons, test areas, checkboxes in my mind for a while. The initial idea was to use them not as they were supposed to be used—as input interfaces—but to focus on their shapes, their position on a page, and to try to animate them. Think: “Misuse of technology,” absurdist mega-interfaces….
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