i2Rock is a work in progress exploring the nature of identity, and how our own concepts of identity form our value systems. How does modern culture with its empisis on money, cashflow, and accululation of material things effect our own identity? What is value and how is it created? Included in the site so far are papers I have written for my Theory and Criticism of Art class, and Hallways. Hallways is an experimental page focusing on modern objects of popular fetish. Upon clicking a link the visitor is taken through the Corridors of Hell in which flash various error messages before landing the visitor in a mislinked site, or a site which some how acts as a spoof on the object sought after. Hopefully inspiring thought about the true value of the desired object.

I really have to question the worth of not only these objects of fetish, but also of atacking them. In light of human kinds search for the divine and true companionship and union, does anyone really feel that the creation or aquisition of some mundane object can substitute for the divine other, or in some way fill our lonely hearts?

Our own identity and the desires which construct them seem to always get in the way of true union. Can creating art along postmodern themes of fetish and deconstruction in some way fill the emptyness we all feel, yet of which we are so violently afraid? Will viewing art do the same? And, if we as artists haven't truly understood the nature of construction of culture and identity, how can we go about effectivly deconstructing them? What right do we have to play God, and who should support us in that?

I don't have answers to these questions. I can mearly explore the issues as anyone can. i2Rock is an open forum for these issues and contributions of text or images can be mailed to Ryan Hunt.