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