Final Blog!
One work of art that really intrigued me was the group project piece from Kimberly Spann. When I first saw the clip with the bird flying across the screen I instantly thought of A Visitor's Guide to London by Heath Bunting which I am sure is from whom she got influence for piece from. The relation between the pieces is that they both have the N,S,E,and W map symbol in the corner of the screen. Kimberly's work functions the same as Bunting's because when you click on one of the symbols on the map key you are directed to a different area as if you were veiwing a digital map.
Influence for Project II
The first artwork that I would like to influence project II would be Boogie-Woogie Wonderland by Candy Factory Collaborations and Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries. I enjoy this piece because it catches your attention the way the words are presented to you with the rhythm of the beat. I may present my character in the same manner they did. It is a good way I think to describe something in an artistic sort of way, using text as art.
I also would like for the Superbad site to be seen as an influence in this 2nd Project. In this piece I enjoy the interaction that it allows us by clicking on these very random images which link us to even more random images. Not only can you click to go to another page but there are many rollovers present on each page as well. I think that following the basics of this site would also create an interesting avenue to describe my character or my scenes. By clicking somewhere on an image of a scene the viewer could be brought to another view of that scene from another angle.
The first artwork that I would like to influence project II would be Boogie-Woogie Wonderland by Candy Factory Collaborations and Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries. I enjoy this piece because it catches your attention the way the words are presented to you with the rhythm of the beat. I may present my character in the same manner they did. It is a good way I think to describe something in an artistic sort of way, using text as art.
I also would like for the Superbad site to be seen as an influence in this 2nd Project. In this piece I enjoy the interaction that it allows us by clicking on these very random images which link us to even more random images. Not only can you click to go to another page but there are many rollovers present on each page as well. I think that following the basics of this site would also create an interesting avenue to describe my character or my scenes. By clicking somewhere on an image of a scene the viewer could be brought to another view of that scene from another angle.
Heath Bunting: A Visitor's Guide to London: 1995
The net.art piece entitled A Visitor's Guide to London was created by Heath Bunting in 1995. Heath Bunting is a very interesting artist who is extremely well known for his artwork in London where he was born and raised. A Visitor's Guide to London was created by Heath with no funding from other sources other than himself. Heath claims "The work was six months of walking around London with no particular aim."
Although this net.art piece says it is a guide to visitor's there is no way it could actually function in this manner. It is an "irrational guide to London" as Bunting would say. This artwork allows the viewer to interact with the piece by having to click to pick which direction they want to go. Each time the viewer clicks the direction they want to go it supposedly brings them to a picture of the street in that direction. Sometimes you are given up to eight different directions to chose from and then other times you are only given two. In some pictures you can tell exactly what is going on and where you may be at and in other pictures you are left wondering where you are at and what you are looking at. I believe that this guide would most likely leave me very interested in the artwork itself but completely confused when it comes to actually following it's directions.
Shu Lea Cheang: Brandon: 1998
The website entitled Brandon by Shu Lea Cheang is a very emotional and disturbing work of net.art. This site is emotional in that it explores the death of an innocent individual who did not deserve to die. It is disturbing because through this exploration the viewer starts to feel some of the pain that this individual suffered through and the cruel nature that our society can sometimes press on us.
The individual from this site is Brandon. Brandon was a cross-gender individual who was raped and murdered in 1993 after his female anatomy was revealed (1). Shu Lea Cheang takes this horrible incident and turns it into a work of art that brings awareness to the pressures of our society and the expectations we have about genders. This site shows it's relevance to net.art through it's use of text to portray feelings and it's interactive qualities such as rollovers.
Mark Napier: Shredder 1.0:1998
Shredder 1.0 was created by Mark Napier and was presented in 1998. The way Shredder 1.0 works is that it takes websites that have already been created and put on the web and it rearranges and takes apart the coding of those websites. The ending result is an abstract work of net.art.
I think this inventive net.art piece by Mark Napier is very appropriate in relation to the culture of the internet. This piece goes to show that anyone can take something from the internet and alter it any way they like and then re post it on the internet, sometimes creating untrue texts and pictures. Shredder plays into the idea that the internet is a free zone open to everyone.
Mark Napier's work shows relevance to net.art by his using text on the web to create art which is a common theme in net.art. In fact Mark claims "By altering the HTML code before the browser reads it, the Shredder appropriates the data of the web, transforming it into a parallel web. Content become abstraction. Text becomes graphics. Information becomes art." Mark's work goes to show that something so simple like text and information can be altered slightly to create a wonderful piece of net.art.
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