beautiful art

i saw something interesting in one of my classes the other day. my teacher, Craig Hickman showed us a program that he had made in Director called Beautiful Dorena. it was basically a simple photoshop/paint/kid pix(he actually made kid pix)/etc kind of program. it is available for download on his website. this may not seem like it would qualify as a peice of art. but it is a product, created by a person, and not only that but it also has a sotry behind it. the program includes sound effects that are time based (as well as randomized) to create the sense of a person being in this fictional town that is described in the "about" of the program. In the about it is described as being created by a group of kids after school, and the name comes from one of the fictional students at the school.
also, when the user is using the various tools there are sound effects that are made while the tool is going. some of the tools also change over time, like the gravity brush for example that drips off the screen the longer the button is held down.
the fact thathte program creates an imaginary space, and has interactive and reactive effects puts it in the same category as any other new media peice of art. it is quite similar to the effect that mark napier creates with his programs.
although this is technically not "web based" art (but it is downloaded on the web) i still feel that it is a good example of the types of projects that can be created. this could have easily been mae for the web in flash and placed on a web site.