summary of net-art project

net art site

Started with the idea of a non-liner concept – having each page a portal to various different pages. Like doors or gate ways

Felt it was very complicated and overkill. ‘more not always better’

Changed to a liner story line. Image after image after image. Example of this is www.(60x1).com

I liked the interactivity the net brought to the art and wanted to involve the viewer as much as possible.

I was looking at dada and came across duchamps moralise which he had given a moustache. Like the idea of using recognisable images or people. Eg George Bush

Started with different channels from a main page but broke it down to three

Joined all cele pages together
Colours
Domestic

Main element in dream weaver I used was roll-overs. Idea of movement (interactive)

Put hypertext in as links and to provoke questions

Wanted to use sound – idea of sound collage – build up of the same sound

All images used form the internet (harvesting) not using mine removed the personal element to it.
Wider availability of recognisable pics.

Marcel Duchamp

Using the Mona Lisa to mediate between high and low culture is not new. Soon after the turn of the 20th century, the Dada movement revolted against the "high cultural" content of the visual arts. In doing this, in some cases the Dadaists elevated the mundane into the world of the "aesthetic" by forcing observers to look at everyday objects in surprisingly new contexts . . .

http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONASV12.htm

Kurt Schwitters - dada artist

Kurt Schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century's greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so Schwitters' life is characterized by paradox and enigma . . . http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

Looking at dadas work especially Kurt Schwitters work I was interested in his collage techniques and the way he built up his pieces with different images cut from magazine articles.

Within my net-art piece I plan to use the same idea of found images (from the Net – known as harvesting)

It will be interesting to look at using images identifiable by the audiences.

Mara Kurtz

Contextual Research - DADA

The Dada Surrealist Movement is now part of art history more in spite of, than because of, its initial aims. Dada began as an anti-art movement or, at least, a movement against the way art was appreciated by what considered itself the civilized world; Surrealism was much more than an art movement and it thrust home Dada's subversive attack on rational and 'civilized' standards. Whether people are aware of it or not, the Dada and Surrealist revolt has helped to change modern consciousness . . .

more @ - http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

Net-Art Site

http://www.digitalartone.co.uk/students07/jamesart/main_page.html

Flash Animation

Flash animation -
layering movie clip and color of clips (alpha&tint)

also adding a mask on movie clip

then drawing a ball of tape moving down on screen.

Flash Animation using Tweening