net art

I found this article a little challenging because it is a list and I’m having a hard time undenrstanding it, but I think the point overall is that using the internet/technology to create art opens up so many new doors. Creating art for the web allows artists to get their work out there so that anybody and everybody can see it, which is so different that people coming to see work in a gallery. The article says you can basically make any type of art with any theme and put it anywhere you want which kind of reminds me of when we discussed the concept of “ubiquitous”.

In “adaweb” I found the opening piece (title?) to be very similar to the hypertext narrative. Each page had one image and one blurb and the linear path made it easy to navigate from page to page. I think that back in the day creating something like this would be the ultimate modern creation because it is a piece of work that also incorporates technical skills that people were just starting to understand.

In “Digital Studies: Being in cyberspace, I found myself clicking on about 5 links that no longer worked, which shows how old fashioned they must have been. One that did work for me was “Shifting” my Tina Laporta, but then only the home page worked. This is actually pretty frustrating because I can’t seem to find anything that is working to analyze for this blog. In Beyond Interface I found a piece called “Light on the Net” which seemed cool because I was told I could turn the light on and off, however this no longer works either. I would think though, that when this did work it would have been an early example of interactivity which brings a whole new meaning to net art. Unlike analog art, when a piece has interactivity the viewer can actually use what they are given to manipulate a piece, and this gives the viewer power, which people generally like.

In the “Introduction to Net Art” I think the most applicable aspect of the list is the word temporality because as I just explained many of these works were only temporary in the long run because the no longer work in the present.

The piece “cyber babes” is interesting because it has an image that looks like an early version of a photo-shop program in which two photographs are combined to create a new, provocative image. These “cyber babes” seem to consist of both male and female elements, and perhaps they started on the web because the artist thought there was no where else for them to go since it was a completely new way of creating art.