Silkweave.

Here are two major reasons why I appreciate digital approaches to Contemporary Art:

1. Its integration into modern technology, namely the internet, which makes it more far more accessible than a gallery space (where even if it is free, open to all and spraying spectators with wine and smiles in the name of a launch, there will always be an unfailing sense of estrangement in and out of the arts). Not that I dislike gallery spaces.
2. Its increasing inclusion of those who would never see themselves as "artists." Refer to the first reason.

I came across a perfect exemplar of both reasons about a year ago. It was in the form of a website. The only instruction you get is "Draw Something," which you then click on to be creatively responsive to your heart's content through this provided medium. There are the additional options where you can change the patterns, colour and algorithms. Some of the results in a quick google search speak for the possibilities themselves.

Anyone with the internet or a reasonably functional iPhone can play with this website, hence the above reasons for my appreciation of digital art. The question I am left with, however, is how one considers this website. Is Silkweave more of an interactive piece of art or an interactive medium for it? I don't question the feasibility of setting something like this up in a gallery setting; it can be done easily. But then that still wouldn't answer the question.

Silkweave was made by Yuri Vishnevsky.