Claire Evans, Aaron Flint Jamison, & Jona Bechtolt
This is an interesting piece of web art. Well, I’m not sure if its art or experimentation. Essentially, the marfa ring is a webspace in which several websites revolving around the town of MARFA TEXAS are located on one webpage. These sites are made by local residents and businesses in marfa. One webpage was devoted to alien activity in marfa containing amateur videos and photographs. Another site simply displays the price of gas in Marfa. It’s a neat way to really portray the personality of the town. Additionally according to rhizome, this “Ring” causes these cites to come up more frequently on google when visitors search for Marfa. This gives people a different perspective of what marfa is really about. I am having difficulty seeing this as digital art. This is more of a webspace tool. It allows Marfa to become more accessible to visitors to the “marfa ring”. I suppose one way this could be considered art is by its use of appropriation and locating these sources to create one whole webspace.
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