pouët.net

check this: http://www.softwareartspace.com

"We represent and distribute software art from the world’s leading artists—a new breed of artists who utilize the latest tools and software to create extraordinary screen-based experiences. The art is derived from custom code that is written by the artist."

don't know if someone buys those things, but it is fun to look at the ads with happy people, watching some random lines on big tv sets :)

125$!? :D

genetically different ?!

Elitism? is this a new genre of "WE CAN SELL THIS CRAP!"

More than "crap" I would say overpriced ...nice eventually interactive screensavers? :D
The idea is nice. The price NOT.

I don't get why you find the price offensive. People buy shirts 4x more expensive than that.

knos: and that's not offensive? :)

more like pretentious
lost my respect for lia with that site

some random quotes

gargaj, no?

im really really curious to know how many they're selling.
it's the kind of business where youve thought of it before but thought there's no way it could actually make any money. :)

i particularly liked the editions of 5000 limitation on software :D

smash: im sure some highclass idiots with too much money to invest on their modern art coneseur reputation has managed to commit that crime. im nearly more curious if the artists actually agreed to this site or if the dude simply got their processing files and did a website about selling them. i cant for the sake of anything seriously consider someone would agree their ugly software coded in a couple days on other peoples opensource platform could be worth 125$ a piece. jesus fuck.

also, the salespitch description on that ripple wave plasma effect - priceless!

I hope they have a forum where we can flood them with "GET THIS FOR FREE YOU DUMBASSES!"-posts.

lol, we should register softwearartspace.com and redo their site with a database of the entire pouet groups as "artists" and the prods as "artpieces"

edition of oo
price 0$
add to artcart ->

:D

Hahahaha!

PS, are you a damn religious puritan or what?

125 dollars is like ten hours of work at minimum wage's salary.

If you're ready to pay for seeing a movie in a theatre or ever bought software, and react negatively to this person's activity then you're just an incoherent, pompeous man.

i rather be incoherent and pompeous then a fucking pretentious sellout of overpriced "art" software

fyi, the guy behind the site is behind the bitforms gallery in new york.
http://www.bitforms.com

i also wouldnt pay for most software or movies or audio cds unless they're totally my thing and within reasonable price. then again thats probably why i run a netlabel and not a physical editor, and why i code for research and fun instead of a comercial company.

ps: what do you do for a living then? :)

smash: r&d at the moment

I have no problems with people charging for software, it's just that there is a disconnect between what I percieve as value and what these people charge for it.

I actually like that "interactive art" has gotten so far as to being sold on the internet. :)

yeah those ugly screensavers are well worth ten hours of work at a shitty salary. Unfortunally i dont make such a shitty salary, so ill just pass on this one thanks tho...damn what an adventure i miss out on there.