my revised public vote by Ansgard Thomson   Art on the net 2002 statement by Ansgard Thomson revised copy of public vote on 17 .10.2002 As a visual digital artist and cyberartist I have critically reviewed all entries carefully as a possible artwork I might like to see in a museum to have a lasting impact on the actual event of 911 as an act of evil masterminded attack on the human condition in the new millennium. Some of the artists have used this opportunity to create a memorial for the innocent victims of this event with merit . The new media as a technical means alone of communication fails to express the incredible impact this event had on the soul of all of us. As we like to preserve an image of the human race as we have known to protect our integrity as artists, we have to choose carefully. It is therefore understandable that some political activists needed to express themselves and placed themselves into the general media position of reporting instead of abstracting . With my own image I tried to say that no matter who we put behind barbed wire to protect us from such attacks from the sky ,this evil event can not be undone ,we are all victims of such human reasoning and should recognize the insanity that lead to it. (This includes attacs from new media that I like to call “terror from the net “) I do hope that art on the net will be able to find a solution for the obvious short comings of such form of judging by including more artists ,who still choose art over cold blooded technology . Warren Richard Furman . The digital image of dancing figures celebrating their victory over all normal reasoning expresses the evil spirit that made it possible to act on a human mind to this point in time to send a message to the world . SORRY he gave up ,but his work still stands as digital art for me . Russel Pensyl This animation worked for me because it is not a mouse over work of photographs but a beautiful work I still want to call fine digital art . Jürgen Trautwein . This short and intense flash movie with his drawing `s expresses the shock of the event vivid in image Word and sound to leave a lasting impression. Kirsten Palanca. Direct photo reporting of the day she experienced without adding any other elements to distract from her personal experience she is sharing with some friends with also includes the impressive sounds recorded. Kazuyo Okudaira For a effective artistic digital rendering of his presentation also providing excellent plugin information to view his works in different size indicate good cyberartist manners and effective communication what the event meant to the world ( without the political overtones at the end I would have considered this work objective 9.11 webart ) Colleen Corradie. Her graphic of the falling towers is showing us traditional work is not out of place on the ever changing Internet and new media illusion to create lasting art . Eric Salvagio . From all the memorial presentation s off other artists in the list his digital rendering stands out as such and does not need any comments as a memorial . It is well done for the memory of the victims of 911. Thursday, October 17th, 2002 at 16:28