Your Tenth and Final Blog Post

Your Final Blog post will be a screenshot of work from this class. Choose a project from a group other than your own. Contextualize this work in relation to the other work you have seen this semester, both assigned research and work you have discovered in your own searches for your history blog post.

Minimum 200 words, as usual. Mention at least three works (artist, date, title) from the history of Web-Based Art, link back to them.

This should be your 10th History Post.

This Post is due midnight, Tuesday, December 8th.

PRELOADER CODE:

//Import the required assets
import flash.display.*;
//Stop the playhead while loading occurs
this.stop();

//Create a listener to call the loading function as the movie loads
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener (ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, PL_LOADING);

/*This is the main function, basically it grabs the total and loaded bytes,
calculates a percentage, and displays it by stretching the bar and adjusting
the textfield display. If your bar/textbox instancenames are NOT lbar/lpc,
you'll need to adjust this code to match your instance names*/
function PL_LOADING(event:ProgressEvent):void {
var pcent:Number=event.bytesLoaded/event.bytesTotal*100;
//Stretch the bar
lbar.scaleX=pcent/100;
//Display the % loaded in textfield
lpc.text=int(pcent)+"%";
//If the movie is fully loaded, kick to the next frame on the main timeline
//You may wish to change the gotoAndStop(2) to a gotoAndPlay(2)
if(pcent==100){
this.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

From Newgrounds FORUM

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/699675

Addition to Your Index Pages:

Please post a link from your index page to your Net Art History Blog by today, Tuesday, November 3.

(This is a POP quiz)

UNLOAD that EXTERNAL FILE

newBtnInstance2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClickHandlerY);

function mouseClickHandlerY(myevent5:MouseEvent):void {

removeChild(myLoader1);

}

LOADING External FLASH Files

var myLoader1:Loader=new Loader ();

newBtnInstance1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClickHandlerZ);

function mouseClickHandlerZ(myevent1:MouseEvent):void {

var myURL1:URLRequest=new URLRequest("additionalMovieFile.swf");

myLoader1.load(myURL1);

addChild(myLoader1);

}

CODE to LINK from FLASH Project to an External URL

buttonInstanceName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClickHandler1);
function mouseClickHandler1(event:MouseEvent):void {
var pixelcolaURL:URLRequest = new
URLRequest("http://pixelcola.net");
navigateToURL(pixelcolaURL); }

MIDTERM checkup THIS WEEKEND

You must have a minimum of 5 history posts as well as the post based on your inspiration for Project II by this Friday. Late posts from the above 6 will not be accepted after Friday.

Your self-portrait as well as one component (person, place, or description of departure) from Project II must also be posted by this Friday.

(If your self-portrait has not yet been posted it is already terribly late. It must be posted by Friday to receive any credit.)

PROJECT II: Collaborative Narrativity

Each group member must describe both a place and a character in separate manifestations (separate pages? separate sites? separate animations?) The character must then somehow be placed within the place. The character must depart from this place. The description of this character, place, and action can come in any of the myriad of forms we have discussed so far in class, or something new you might dream up.

The group will then collaborate to create a place where all of the characters will meet. In this place a collision will happen, something will fall and/or break, and the characters will react to this event. Individual attention should be given to the reaction of each character, whether or not the character was involved in the collaboration.

Blog Post Due 10/23

Choose two pieces of art we have discussed in class (or linked to from the class blog) so far and describe how these pieces will influence your next project, Project II.

EVENT and PLACE Candy Factory collaborations with Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries

PLACE:

HALBEATH

EVENT (and PLACE):

B00GIE-W00GIE W0NDERLAND

Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries:

EVENT (and PLACE):

K0REA WEB ART FESTIVAL 2001

IDENTITY and Sexuality

1996..........Mouchette

1998..........BRANDON..........Shu Lea Cheang

1999..........Bindigirl..........Prema Murthy

1996..........My Boyfriend Came Back From The War..........Olia Lialina

Your net.art History Blogs for Tuesday 10/6

Describe one of the pieces linked in the post below. Be sure to answer the following questions in your description: (200 words as usual)

What are some of the ways that the authors chose to represent the places and events in the projects below? What are some characteristics of these representations that are specific to the medium of the internet?

The Bomb Project Joy Garnet, 2000-present (development, 1997-present)

HiroshimaProject Akke Wagenaar, 1995

Siberian Deal Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Wohlgemuth, 1995

A Visitor's Guide to London Heath Bunting, 1995

Communication Creates Conflict Heath Bunting, 1995

Arctic Circle Double Travel Felix Huber and Philip Pocock, 1994

ActionScript 3.0: Terms and Definitions

ActionScript 3.0: Terms and Definitions

VARIABLE

A variable represents a specific piece of data.

When you declare(create) a variable, you assign a data type.

Assigning a data type determines what kind of data the variable can represent.

var is the keyword used to create a variable

KEYWORD

A word used to perform a specific task

var is the keyword used to create a variable

function is the keyword used to create a function

PARAMETER

The value between parentheses

A detail for a particular command

In the method gotoAndPlay(5), 5 is the parameter

FUNCTION

A group of statements referred to by name

OBJECT

abstract data that helps to perform tasks

A button is an object.

METHOD

the verbs of ActionScript

stop() is a method

gotoAndPlay(5) is a method

PROPERTIES

data that describes an object

height, width, x and y coordinates are properties

EVENT

occurences that happen inside the Flash environment

a mouse click is an event

ActionScript 3.0: Button Actions

btnInstanceName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandlerA);
function mouseDownHandlerA(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(2);
}

Your net.art History Blogs

Use the links on this page to experience work from the history of Web-Based Art. Each week post a minimum of one screenshot from one of these sites. This screenshot should include the title of the work, the artist and date created as well as a link to the work. This screenshot should also accompany a 200 word per week entry that discusses the relevance of the site to net.art history and/or an explanation of what the site is trying to achieve artistically. Any text borrowed from another site should appear in quotes and link back to the original site.

(Self) Portrait in HTML

Consider the Cubists' take on POV's (Point of View's) influence upon the representation of reality. Consider the Cubists' take on being in time and space with the subject. Consider also early net artists' interest in highlighting the aesthetics of the web. How might cubist consideration be updated to include aesthetics based on the architecture of the internet?

Create a self portrait using the skills we have learned so far in Dreamweaver and its integration with Photoshop and Illustrator to create a self-portrait in web. Consider the potential for interactivity in describing a subject. Consider how representation is affected by the rollover as well as the hyperlink. Rock the free world.

SUPERBAD (1997) Ben Benjamin

Shredder 1.0 (1998) Mark Napier

wwwwwwwww.jodi.org (1995) Jodi

Jorge Luis Borges

The Library of Babel

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The Garden of Forking Paths

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