Project
3 Create an interactive Net.ART project
You will create an art work
for an actual net.art site. You will research possible sites
for your work. Then, you will write a hypothetical proposal
to a site manager. Finally, you will create the work proposed.
Approach this assignment as
though you were a practicing net.artist looking for a suitable
Internet site to display your work. You need to choose the appropriate
audience for your work. For example, if you would like to produce
a satirical homespun webisode animation you would address a
site like www.doodie.com
NOT the Whitney
Bienniel. Imagine producing work for your dream commission
(if you don't have one - MAKE IT UP).
Your art piece can take the
form of an interactive game, or an interactive net.art piece,
which may include animation, sound design,digital video, or
any combination of these options. Do NOT create a commercial
piece.
Part 1 (due 10/27)
You will write a hypothetical
query letter to an existing net.art site
explaining your project and its relevancy
to their site.
Include
the name and URL of the site you would like to address in your
letter.
Explain
how your proposed work would fit in with their site. For example,
you could compare an existing work in the site that reflects
a similar artistic attitude or style to that of your own (include
specific visual examples).
You
must post your letter on the web. Be sure to hand in the URL
the day the letter is due.
SITES
THAT COMMISSION ELECTRONIC ART
confused
- "exclusively commissioned flash art, toys, videos, and
animations from the most talented designers on the web."
kiasma
- museum of contemporary art in Finland
New
Media Scotland - an agency facilitating arts activity shaped
by new technologies.
the
alternative museum - museum of contemporary art in NYC
splatterpunk
- Adobe sponsers this site currently promoting splatterpunk.
Pixeltime!
- has contests for pixel art
CURATED
EXHIBITS FOR THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
äda'web
projects Curated
on-line art
Pre-fab
- exhibition of virtual architecture
CHANNEL
- curated net.art, site based in the UK. Includes links to the
following projects:
- Inhabiting
Metropolis - a collation of works exploring the relationship
beween actual (urban) and virtual space.
- HOLES
LININGS THREADS by Alicia Felberbaum. '...threads of ones
and zeros riding the carpets and simulating silk screens in
the perpetualmotions of cyberspace. It joins women on and
as the interface between man and matter, identity and difference,
one and zero, the actual and the virtual. ' Weaving Women
and Cybernetics, Sadie Plant .
- Virtual
Exiles -an on-line curated art project with the aim of
collating a rich and diverse exhibition of archive and contemporary
photographs, sound and video. We would like to invite you
to contribute your photographs, sound or video clips. The
site is for anyone to contribute to who knows what it is like
living in one place that may be 'home', but still remembering
your experiences and recollections of another place - perhaps
your country of where you were born, or your parents country.
The work starts off with contributions from those whose origins
are from Guyana or who have travelled, lived in or been part
of a Guyanese experience.
JUST
WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES THE INTERNET SO DIFFERENT, SO APPEALING?
- 5 Internet art projects. From January 22nd to September 24th,
2000, five different Internet projects were presented in the
Project room at Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway. Curator Bjørn Bjarre's
statement
WEB
JOURNALS
FOR HYPERTEXT FICTION, THEORY, ART, AND POETRY,
ETC.
ebr
- a review forum on new media art & theory
ebr
issue 10
includes writing under
constraint, image + narrative, continued electropoetics, revisited
critical ecologies revisited, with a special review cluster
on media theory and hypertext
ebr 6 -
Image and Narrative Part 1
ebr 7 -
Image and Narrative Part 2
alt-x
- "where the digerati meet the literati" Includes amerika online:
mark amerika's popular internet column, altx audio: streaming
word-dub!, electronic book review: a review forum on new media
art & theory, grammatron: the Internet Art classic, altx imprints:
major publications of the virtual kind, black ice fiction: degenerative
prose for the hungry masses, hyper-x: beyond the book, dirty
desires: you're not the only one.
BeeHive
The BeeHive journal
is concerned with the advancement of web-based literary forms.
From works that makes use of hypertextual techniques and emergent
technologies, to experimental fiction, poetry, and essays BeeHive
strives to provide an entertaining, informative literary experience.
The
Iowa Review Web
hyperfiction, poetry, animation, etc.
SWITCH
- Switch is the new media art journal of the CADRE Laboratory
for New Media of the School of Art and Design at San Jose University.
It has been published on the Web since 1995.
UBUWEB
- Visual, concrete, and sound poetry
WEB
MAGAZINES
artasiapacific.com
- the online version of ARTAsiaPacific. This month's issue is
on new media
urban
desires - a web mag/online film forum
campzine
- "pure humor"
GAMES
& INTERACTIVITY
SWITCH
- Art & Games Issues
Draw
A NIMAL
- (mi-NIMAL a-NIMAL)
Pattern
Primer by Paul Panhuysen off the Artifice CD-ROM
The
Edison Effect Companion by Paul Demarinis off the Artifice
CD-ROM
Lolli's
Apartment by Talan Memmott off his WORK.BOOK.02 CD-ROM
ANIMATION
shockwave.com
dotcomix
- 3d VRML streaming animation, featuring Sister Randy and Duke
2000
DIGITAL
VIDEO
contagious
pictures - a digital video company that makes funny short
films it hopes viewers will pass around the Internet.
Atom
Films - "Get into our shorts"
DIGITAL
AUDIO
rahzel2000
- site for rapper and "human beatbox" Rahzel
Hookt.com
- hip-hop web portal
ACTIVIST
ART
Globetown
PiE Poetry Trail - This site gives us a glimpse into an
innovative, challenging and rewarding ten week project involving
five Bethnal Green schools, two poets and two visual artists.
The project was designed to develop links between the schools
and the local community, raise the profile of poetry and increase
literacy skills
Part 2 (due date to be announced)
Your completed work will be
ready for submission. Your work may be presented on the web
or on a storage device such as a Zip, CD-Rom, or Jazz disk.
