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

Multi Images

Moving Ball Of Tape - GIF

Stop Frame Animation saved as a gif file

A Short 1min Video Clip Edited in iMovies.

SMS 'Stop Motion Studies'

- David Crawford -

“Crawford’s pieces combine the strange homogeneity of public spaces pictured by Andreas Gursky, the complex cinematic ambiguity of Jeff Wall’s photos, and even the lovely light and titillating urban voyeurism of the Impressionists.”
—Bert Stabler, Chicago Reader



Stop Motion Studies - Tokyo, 2004

- Crawford seems to have taken a selection of photo stills (stop frames) and strung them together to create a moving image. A lot of his images were taken on trains and subway tubes, this gives Crawford both a static and moving object in each photo.this means in every shot the people don’t move that much but as the train is moving the background changes constantly.

The different ways links and linked images are used on the net to create Net.Art.

There are many different ways links and linked images are used on the net to create Net.Art.

These are some of the different ways to use them –
As Background -
http://art.teleportacia.org/

In this site the artist has used an images with in the background for the site. They have taken one image of trees and wallpapered it all over the site.

As you enter this site you are presented with a screen of trees and onto of them is this ‘crater’ or hole in the ground, the trees still visible underneath. When you click on this ‘crater’ you are teleported across the page to the sites partial full of both static and moving links.

As Foreground –
http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/
(60x1.com)

As Single frame narrative –
http://media.k10k.net/issues/issue006/

As picture narratives –
http://www.superbad.com

Manipulated photographs –
http://www.counterwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/art/glimpsed.htm

ASCII –
http://www.salsabomb.com/nude/
http://www.trussel.com/f_char.htm

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As hypermedia (internet photomontage) –
http://www.ghostcity.com/crowdsandpower/

How web pages and virtual space changes the way art can be made and viewed.

Makes art interactive

Makes it accessible to everyone all at the same time. Areas of accessibility are – homes/schools/offices/etc.

By creating Net.Art (art using the internet/software as the media) artists are opening their work up to be downloaded and used/adapted by anyone and everyone. A Net.Artist needs to be open to the possibility of their work being used by others. The work is put out their for everyone to view and use if they want.

Art being created on the net on WebPages and ‘virtual spaces’ does open itself up to computer programmers and not just artists. As the internet started as a military resource in America a lot of the first net.artists were programmers using the net as a means of visual protest against the government.

A Definition of Net.Art -

net.art is a group of artists who worked in Internet art from 1994. The members are usually referenced as Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, Heath Bunting. This group was united as a parody of avantgarde movements by writers such as Tilman Baumgärtel, Josephine Bosma, Hand Dieter Huber and Pit Schultz but their individual works have little in common.

net.art is also used as a synonym for net art or Internet art and covers a much wider range of artistic practices. In this wider definition, net.art means art that uses the Internet as its medium and that cannot be experienced in any other way. Often net.art has the Internet as (part of) its subject matter but this is certainly not required.

From - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net.art