Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:45pm

Event | Sonar, Barcelona

What a scorcher! I'm just back from a flying visit to the Sonar festival in Barcelona with my Bathysphere chums.

It was my first visit to the annual festival of electronic music and digital arts and, despite only being able to attend part of the event, I saw plenty of interesting work.

In particular, the Internet-based work on display in the exhibition area was very thought provoking. It demonstrated that the Internet is not just a place to simply *show* work created predominantly off-line, but is capable of being something with it's own unique art forms, based around the nature of interactivity or information architectures.

For example, there was a nice piece of work that drew 'trees' of Web site structures and their links - this site was a veritable forest! Another couple of pieces of work explored the structures and interconnections in the flickr picture sharing Web site.

I'll research some of the pieces of work further and post any links I find here.

I managed to post a few pictures to the pLog while I was in Barcelona. The greenish looking one is actually the 'tree' constructed from the Cuttlefish Digital Arts site.

Finally, there was also the social side of Sonar. But that's really another story. I'll simply say that Bathysphere sure know how to party...

Author: Sean Clark