The Web As A Medium

The web as a medium holds various things: it’s a hub of creativity and a safe to all the information stored in it. It helps individuals and businesses to offer their services to the whole world and not just their own country. It helps people to communicate with each other extremely fast, and for machines to transfer massive amounts of data from one location to another.

Perhaps, with respect to all of these factors, the message is to convey a whole different territory of creativity much like programing where one does not simply need to be good at drawing because one can, instead, write code that will do that for them. Or perhaps its message is to convey an artistic form of data sharing similar to photographs and still life and landscape painting, except it shares all of such things instantaneously everywhere, something that one can’t do with a single copy of a picture or a painting. Or perhaps the message conveys the dangers of such data sharing by showing the endless possibilities of using the web for almost anything. Or even, perhaps, it simply signifies the transition from one artistic form to another, the new form being digital art, considering that before the web, some things were already being created digitally on the ancient computers (video games being one of them, of course).

There are an infinite amount of possibilities if the web is, indeed, a medium with a specifically dedicated message. Maybe it was just created for the sake of creativity, experimenting in making something new and unique, with a simple goal in mind to share data with other computer users. Sometimes we create something without any specific purpose, and maybe the web is one of them? It is uncertain in either case.