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Intro to Class on Dynamic web content for artists at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
(there are some slight abreviations and additions to the original doc that I emailed to you)
My intro, I co-produce an art blog with Sally Mckay, a visual artist, curator and former publisher of Lola, a toronto based art magazine that ran a few years ago - http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/
I am an exhibiting visual artist: LornaMillsImageDump/,
and my practise has begun to include the obsessive collecting and remixing, distortion and posting of found GIF animations.http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LMfoundGIFs/
As well, since 1994, I have been a professional childrens' game and software programmer, working on games initially for delivery on CD-ROM, back when CD's were going to replace all the books on earth, and currently working on games for web delivery.
I'd like to make the point that in 1993 when, well into my adulthood, I first learned to turn on a computer I felt as though I was horribly late getting to a great party. You will feel like that as well, don't worry. If someone else tries to make you feel like that, tell them to piss off. (this is important technical advice)
Dragan Espenschied quote:
From: Gravity
"The pressure to be up to date with technology appears insane to me. It doesn't bring any more beauty or pleasure. Instead it creates things that are hard to understand
and impossible to handle. So nobody can actually experience them beyond reading the artist's concept."
(quite rich considering that it comes from Rhizome) ([eta] I'm mocking Rhizome, not Dragan Espenschied)
Tom Moody Quote:
“"Artists, too, have to compete with real world content far more captivating than anything they could come up with, which the Internet effectively gathers all in one place
(sneezing Pandas, etc). Two possible responses are (1) to continually rise above it through aesthetic and conceptual framing and posturing or (2) to disappear into it and
trust the viewer to ultimately sort out what's going on. The Web is a consumer's medium, not a producer's, so the artist is inexorably led to consumption as a "practice."
The degree of criticality can only be inferred, not implied."
Before we codify it any further-
- almost anyone can make one good piece that will pass as art,
- humbling to see what is being done by people who don’t position themselves as artists
Intro to what non-artists are doing first of all on image boards department:
4chan, 7chan etc: http://www.4chan.org/, http://www.7chan.org/
- Started as a fan site for japanese animations and television, was over taken by porn.
b3ta – http://b3ta.com
- according to the Guardian: “a puerile digital arts community"
YTMND - http://www.ytmnd.com/
- an initialism for "You're The Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs
or sites)
My fave: http://idhddu.ytmnd.com/
Some image tools online besides google:
LiveJournal scrapers: http://www.journalpics.net/pages/ljlatest/
http://www.nastynets.com/picsee/ another scraping tool
http://blingee.com/ http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/12.htm
Youtube & quicktime samplers:
Petra Cortright:
petra-cortrights-webcam-video/
Paul Slocum
You're Not My Father
Oliver Laric:
http://oliverlaric.com/airconditionvideo.htm
http://oliverlaric.com/underthebridge.htm
Javier Morales
guitar solo
Javier Morales
rgb chord
Aleksandra Domanovic ( Kieslowski (tracking colors) from Blue White and red)
Three Colours (Polish: Trzy kolory) is the collective title of three films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs:
Bleu (Three Colours: Blue) (1993), Trzy kolory: Biały (Three Colours: White) (in French: Blanc) (1994), and Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three Colours: Red) (1994).
http://aleksandradomanovic.com/Kieslowski.html
final youtube:
Horse Balls
Readings (kept to a minimum):
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/
http://www.ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.pdf
VVORK: http://www.vvork.com/
http://www.jennifermcmackon.com/archive/index.blog?start=1183603970
Overview of assignments (end of class)
Blog assignment is a Surf club with Joe McKay's "American Cyberculture" class at UC Berkeley : a sample, more to come: http://nastynets.com/?what=yes/
One week where you have to post something every day to the site, and then it will continue from
there at a slower pace. URL TBA
HTML & animated GIFs assignment Taking the limitations of the medium and making it look on purpose: http://looksee.chrisashley.net/
http://www.goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooogle.com/20y.html
Collection assignment minimum 25, max 50.
Lists of things that are invested with meaning. Must be compelling for you or it won’t be for me.
Low brow or high brow as you want . No kitteh with earphones. I'm tired of them.
Self curating assignment a group show of jpegs where you have positioned your own work inside. (4 or more artists, can be contemporary or historical)
All assignments will be viewable on a web browser
Over all, we will be looking at a lot of dynamic artists' sites, interspersed with a few technical instructables
contingent upon your current skills. There will be very little writing required. You don't want to write it and I sure don't want to read it.
Marks will be based on a system similar to Olympic Ice-dance judging.