Internet History Reading and Oil Standard

I have a hard time at associating the Oil Standard project as a form of actual web art. I guess I see art as more of a creative creation process, and while the Oil Standards project is a creative and interesting way of spreading this information about oil it doesn't really play into this idea of demonstrating a creative process unique to the artist and their creations. Art also tends to create a unique experience for the viewer, the Oil Standards project only seems to be a creative way of spreading already existing information. But I'll admit that is pretty cool in the way it transforms all the different prices on the web and then links us to different articles on the use of oil and the oil industry.

This project fits into the Sterling reading because it plays right into this idea of the anarchy of the Internet. In this situation an individual is using the Internet to bring awareness to this idea of oil consumption and how oil is being used in the world today by playing on off of the prices already floating around online. I'm pretty sure the people that originally placed those prices online had no idea that they would one day be used to make a statement about the oil industry.