Andy Deck

Andy Deck is an American artist who specializes in creating pieces that are web-based. He was born in 1968 in New York City, New York. Starting in the 1990s, he has been working with software to create art. Deck combines many messages concerning politics, "sociocultural emergency," defamiliarization, and parody to create very interesting artwork. Initially, Deck began working with software to create short films. Through his work, Deck addresses the problematic of passivity in mass-media "rich" societies. He has taught courses at Sarah Lawrence College as well as New York University.
I think what attracts me most to Deck's work is the fact that it is so interactive. Starting in the mid-1990's, Deck has been including an interactive and collaborative element to his work, joining the viewer with the art. Every web installation he creates leads to click after click of entertaining slight changes in images and visual stimulation. Each piece has various ways to change or manipulate what the viewer is looking at on screen. The possibilities are also very great in each work - the viewer is able to choose his or her own path through his web-based images.
With various influences from current events, politics, and other elements of society, Andy Deck has many unique and bold pieces that are definitely worth checking out.

"After concentrating on digital media for a few years, the emergence of the World Wide Web provided a fascinating means of addressing people around the world with almost no distribution costs. It didn't take long to see how certain kinds of potential offered by the global network could fit together with the drawing software I had been developing. Actually, when I showed people early prototypes for online drawing, the first thing they asked was whether people could draw together on the same image. So it seems there were immediately some new forms of interaction that people wanted."
-Andy Deck

LINKS:

http://artcontext.net/ (Andy Deck's official website)
*Alyssa's Favorites*
Lexicon, Surge Cycle

http://www.andyland.net/

Screening Circle link:
http://artcontext.org/act/05/screeningCircle/