Category: JH Moon

Rachel Greene’s article about Net Art is very wholesome. She includes the history of the internet and basically throughout her article explains how it has blossomed into a platform for all people, connecting those from all over the world regardless of skin color, race, ethnicity, etc. Everyone shares one thing: Behind screens. 

Honestly, I got a little confused during the reading because the terminology is a bit different. However, I was able to summarize that through her historical context and various amounts of examples, Net Art is sort of underrated in the “Art community” that she also brings up earlier in the reading. She mentions how Net Art was not part of a particular community, and wasn’t really categorized as anything except just excerpts of digital art, however there was finally a name for it: Net Art. 

I thought this reading was interesting because before it was mentioned in class, I never heard of Net Art nor knew what it was. Yet this article made it a little clearer as to the history of the Internet, various examples of digital art, some creators, certain themes such as cyberfeminism or chat rooms, etc. Net Art is a unique form of art that looks very challenging to put together (from an amateur’s point of view), and the obscurity of it makes it more creative which then gets appreciation from viewers like me.

https://www.cameronsworld.net/

I found this website through some Googling around, included in a list of notable Internet art. It’s a scrollable collage of personalized webpages that were created between 1994-2009 on Yahoo’s free GeoCity service, where anyone with the knowhow could create their own unique personal website. It’s quite fascinating, like looking backwards in time through an Internet looking-glass. There’s so many different kinds of designs, content, and visual details, and yet they all share the many characteristics that defined the early Internet, distinct (yet not separate) from its forms we know today.

www.no-limit.org from Ubermorgen on Monoskope Net-art

The project I viewed appeared at first like an ordinary photo gallery or music webpage. Below an esoteric photo of modern art there are two paragraphs, one English and one German, starting with “evil transcends our imagination.” When I coincidentally hovered my mouse over the text as I was trying to read, the letters began rapidly warping into nonsense and slowly reordering themselves back into text when I removed my mouse. The background also flickers from black to gray occasionally. As I kept scrolling down, I saw more photos of art pieces in a museum of shorts and text in German that addressed me a the president. To be entirely honest, I don’t know what to make of the project and I feel that I’m missing some important context. I then noticed some links on the page which led me to more interesting pages, including stories of people’s experiences/perceptions that in some sense harbor evil. I still don’t fully understand the context of the piece, but the message appears to be a statement on how external factors influence people to become “evil” and imparts sympathy to them.

Link: http://entropy8zuper.org/godlove/ 

From monoskop website, I found an artist ‘Entropy8Zuper!’. I did not have any information about it, but the unique name itself grabbed my attention. Entropy8Zuper! is actually a name for a company Tale of Tales, founded by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. They are working for the creation of websites and electronic art. 

The first impression I got was that the page looked creepy. It was taking God as their theme. I think the most interesting part of this project is a variety of interactions. Once I put my mouse pointer on the letter “O”, its inside turned into “i”. I was trying to figure out the hidden meaning of “i”, but the one thing I am pretty confident is that the letter is related to God, maybe something that can reveal his identity. 

As I scroll the screen to the right, I can explore the website. All of the words were clickable and they offered certain description or videos.

In the page attached below, I was first confused for a while. But, then I realized that depending on the position of the mouse position, the postures of two people also changed, and I thought this was really intriguing and unique idea. Overall, it was a little bit challenging to decipher the meaning of the project, but overall it was totally different from what I have usually seen. Therefore, the project was very insightful.

link: http://www.exhaustingacrowd.com/london

Description of exhausting a crowd:

This internet art is produced by Kyle McDonald. The interesting interactive space shows the hustle and bustle in four sites: London, Netherlands, Birmingham, and Gwangju. From the view of a security camera installed in the corner, the user can make annotations on the 12-hour video. They can also click on some object and create the dialogues or any kind of encounters by typing the words in the text box.

I consider it meaningful because we can watch the prosperity of the modern city from a different perspective. This time, we are involved in a digital and art world. We are able to take an insight into the utility of public place, the surveillance, and the interpersonal relationship.