RTMark is a website that "serves as a portrait of the internet" or "socially conscious sabotage." The makers are a group of new media artists who choose to remain anonymous. They choose sites to parody, such as George W. Bush's presidential site, or a the Backstreet Boys homepage, and make their version very close the real thing, so that it would be possible for a viewer to not know what they're looking at.
I was drawn to this work because of the comparison to Marcel Duchamp's readymades. I think that RTMark has similar motives as Dada artists did but with a slightly more obvious message. When we are forced to consider things art that we normally would not, it effects not only our perspective on art and culture, but also on the society in which we live, and ourselves.
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