Watercouleur Park

I happened upon a piece of net.art called Watercouleur Park from the list of links. It is a flash-based site created by a French artist collective named Qubo Gas, who according to the Tate Online website, work primarily with collages, frescoes, video installations, and digital animation among other things. The site also alludes that body of work produced by the group usually starts with drawings and sketches. Watercouleur Park is essentially a series of animations made up of said sketches and doodles that appear to be cut-out pieces of paper that they have scanned in. The article mentions that the images used in these animations come from an updatable database of an unspecified amount of these sketches. The sketches resemble organic pieces of landscape - trees, waterfalls, vines, assorted vegetation - and they appear to be drawn with various pens, markers, and watercolor. Apparently, there are 14 different formations that appear randomly when one visits the site, which are made up of randomly selected landscape sketches. Each of these animations are interactive in different degrees according to which particular animation appears on-screen. For example, in one particular animation, the sketched landscape pieces zoom in and out as if you are traveling along a sphere. The bright colors and organic shapes are coupled with a seemingly randomly composed soundtrack for each animation. These noodling sounds round out the imaginative and abstract disorder of the site.