Art Fag City’s very clever Paddy Johnson is currently visiting Toronto and seeing a bunch of art (you can follow her twitter updates, if you do such things, here). She recently posted on the exasperating results of trying to do internet research on these galleries before her trip and the complete lack of accessible information on many websites.
Kitteh speak font never fails to convey absolute truths. From regmedia.co.ukAn excerpt from Johnson’s online critique:
- The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA). Splashpages with the word “launch” scare me because they suggest a lot of Flash. To MOCCA’s credit, there’s less on the site than I anticipated, though any image a surfer would want to send to a friend the museum prevents by embedding it with this program. Also, why make users open a PDF press release when we could just view it in html?
- The Power Plant. Here’s a really bad idea: Create a splash page first directing all visitors to away from your site and onto Powerball, “The Original Contemporary Art Party” (Thursday May 28th for those who want to attend). I’m not entirely sure why this event is so important, but an array of corporate sponsors logos blind a visitor at first sight, taking up an enormous amount of web real estate. It’s very tacky. Should users eventually arrive at the Power Plant website, a sound effect goes off everytime they scroll over individual frames. It’s annoying, and site already uses rollover images so it’s also unnecessary. All header text is too small.
I have to give MOCCA kudos for finally revamping their old page, but otherwise agree. You can read all of Johnson’s Canadian art internet frustrations at Art Fag City.
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