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Week 11 Interactive Art – Kimmy Tanchay

https://anthology.rhizome.org/epithelia

I fell in love with this project almost instantly. What caught my eye about it initially was that it was made back in 1999; meaning all of it is against an old Windows software. This brought back a very nostalgic feel as if I was transcending back in time. 

Besides this, what really struck me was how the artist’s concept was focused entirely on the human body in which the user can explore the different body parts. However, this was presented through beautiful collages that were distinctly different for each body part. It was chaotic, weird and sometimes even haunting — in the best way possible. 

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Week 11 Interactive Art Example Kevin Xu – Windows 93

http://www.windows93.net/

Windows 93 is a sort of simulation of what an older version of windows looked and worked like. Using retro images, the website creates a nostalgic feeling meant to take the user back to when the internet and computers were much less developed. I like this website because it allows the user to explore freely without much instruction, creating  a sense of wonder and discovery. It has also inspired to look to the past for ideas about visuals. 

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Week 10: Internet Web Art Cara Chang

http://weavesilk.com/

attached is a link to a webpage that I found to be completely mesmerizing. It is interactive and you draw with your mouse and the website generates very mesmerizing art forms based on your mouse movement. attached below is a demonstration on how the user can create any shape with a multitude of colors and dimensions. Having such florescent colors against a black screen adds to the brightness of the colors on the screen. This site reminds me heavily of a very zen aura and stress reliever. 

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Internet Art Project: Khaliun (Helen) Dorjderem

Link to the project: http://www.georgeandjonathan.com/#4  

The project that appeared to be really cool in my eyes was these music videos created by George and Jonathan. It is basically a project that the user can see every notes playing at the moment, and not only from one perspective but from any kind of angle the user wants. I thought it is so cool because it almost felt like creating the music or controlling the music, so it gave that nice feeling to me. 

When the user tap and hold the cursor and move it the music video basically moves along. It very interesting and they have slightly different videos for each of their songs. I think it is a really creative form of producing music videos compared to the traditional way. 

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Internet Art Review-Selina Chang

look,See-chris ashley

This page is a collection of Chris Ashley’s HTML drawings started from 2008. The mechanism under this is that The drawings are made using HTML tables in the WYSIWYG editor in Dreamweaver, a software application used to create websites. The WYSIWYG editor (What Your See Is What You Get) is a tool used for editing a web content that, unlike writing source code, allows for the direct manipulation of the colors and shapes that will appear online. The HTML table is a grid with a designated number of rows and columns. After making the selections for the table, Ashley assigns a hexadecimal value to each square in the grid, giving it its color and code. A new HTML drawing is made every day (from http://archive.rhizome.org). So basically he generates the drawing by assigning different colors and code to every grid/or pixels to make painting which I think is pretty cool. All these drawing are in the same size of 770X660px since they are generated from the same website that he designed.  Even it is just a change in color of the grid, it brings us different feelings.

This makes me feel like playing games from the 80s or 90s since it looks like pixelized game.

This piece is the one that I like the most because of its gradient and stuff.  

about the artist

Chris Ashley is an artist who creates his work through the use of coding with simple instruction to create shapes, add colors and texture to his paintings. Through the use of this new medium, he is able to create freedoms and use this freedom to diffuse and inject his artwork with new fresh meaning.