Why the annoying side scrolling and the huge flash splash page?
A. For this project to succeed it was important that on first impression it looked like the real thing so in keeping with what seems to be standard practise with museum websites we broke as many useability rules as we could. The flash animation also contained a subtle clue ( use of the white stripes song ‘ all you kids you think you know where it’s at, I think I smell a rat’ ) as to the real intent of the site. Q. Do you consider the project a success A Yes and no We are very proud of both net art open exhibitions, while we realise that not every exhibition of net art can be curated in this fashion we do feel they added to the ongoing debate about net art curation, contained a huge amount of fantastic work and provided a unique snapshot of the state of the art at that particular time. We are, however, somewhat disappointed that after two years of activity IMMA still has no policy toward digital art and they still retain what is probably the worst website of any museum of modern art in
