Media Art that will never be Media Art

i hate media art, well, i hate what people consider media art. i mean, you see all these stupid projects that have use for them, USE, that has a purpose, god damn it, it just leaves the taste in your mouth that they intend to try to pawn it off to some company inorder to sell as a product or something (when in truth, the companies just come and steal the idea and sell it themselves). i recently had an encounter with a man at the STRP show, he asked me about my flowers piece. he asked whether the moaning was the only sound you can make the flowers speak in. i replied you can make it anything you want. he replied, why not just let anyone control the sound or change the sound to whatever they want. i said, options makes it a tool, no options makes it a statement. i think this says something very important about interactivity.

now for some art, this is tim hawkinson's piece EMOTER
the piece moves various photographic elements of randomly creating various expressions and viewers can't help but read into what they mean
how he communicates random is very interesting, i mean, it's so easy for programmers to write random() to create a random number. he interfaces it with a tv set gathering random tv signals which the viewer can see and uses that to control the faces. the tv is definitively random and uncontrollable for the viewer.
this is definitively media art, but you will never learn about it from any media art conferences or shows. and, ok personal opinion, this kicks so much ass, way more than any media art pieces out there.