“Dakota”: All I can say is humm

What just happened? I was expecting to read another long poem that I would not understand, but then I clicked on the Young-Hae Chang works and discovered something completely different, which of course I did not understand. Immediately the thought of “What the heck,” popped into my brain, but then I just went with it. Even though this time I was not reading a poem in typical textual form, I am still confused about the messages behind the works, especially “Dakota.” Watching this work flash upon the screen while rapid jazz music thumped in the background, I felt as if I was inside a Jack Kerouac novel. It appeared as though some beatnik on speed was sending me these bazaar phrases that were not even visible long enough for me to read them. Maybe the rapidity of the work was trying to create a subliminal message. I kept waiting for a Coke ad to pop up in the middle of it, forcing me to reach into my fridge and grab a soda. Overall, I just don’t know what to think. I just felt drained after watching “Dakota.” I cannot even quote from the work, it all just happened too fast. My inability to connect with this piece makes me wonder, “Why this setting, why present ‘Dakota’ in this medium?” Perhaps, if I could physically hold the poem and read it without all that “jazz,” then maybe I could understand it. But would it be the same, or even mean the same thing if the presentation was different? How important is the format of web-art to the literary work itself?