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Week 11: Internet Art Project Website Blogpost – Allie Dunnaville

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-million-internet-users-created-piece-art-180962867/

The art piece I chose is called, “The story of Place is an eternal story, about the three forces that humanity needs to make art, creation, and technology possible.” I think this piece is actually quite powerful because It was not made by one individual. Instead, it was made by a collection of about 32,265 anonymous Reddit users for 72 hours.

To give some context, on April Fool’s day of 2017 Reddit gave its users a blank 1,000 by 1,000 pixel canvas to place colored/illustrated tiles anywhere. Although this art project can no longer have any additions made to it by users, I still think it is a significant piece; Because although the result of this piece may seem chaotic, the way it was created turned out to be collaborative and striking. 

What I found most compelling about this piece of art is that I think it shows you a way in which the internet can connect a large group of people to create something meaningful together. The whole concept of this art piece emphasizes the importance of the internet and how it can connect people from all over the world who may never have thought to collaborate on something together before. Although the artwork may not be the most “beautiful,” the larger significance is what’s most important.

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Week 11: Interactive Film Project – Allie Dunnaville

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~jh5231/VideoProject/

This was by far my favorite project of the semester. Film and photography are something I am passionate about, so having the chance to utilize these mediums for this project made me very happy and excited!

My partners and I decided to create a film based on international students’ experiences attending NYU Shanghai. More specifically we chose to juxtapose the expectations and realities of what Shanghai life is all about. I found the first week of the assignment most challenging because my teammates and I actually struggled with finding a concept we were happy about. Finally, after completely changing our film concept twice, we all agreed that making a scene about the realities and expectations of an NYU Shanghai international student’s life would be meaningful, engaging, and fun!

My role in the project consisted of writing/storyboarding some of the scenes and editing the film. I used Final Cut Pro to edit all of the films. At first, our concept for making the film interactive was creating two separate films for reality and expectations where users were given the option to click on the screen and switch between different films. Although, after I finalized editing both films and received feedback from classmates, myself and my team realized the design wouldn’t be cohesive enough because each of the eleven clips had different background sounds/music. That’s why we decided to change the interactivity element of our project to have the videos positioned side by side. I think if we had more time we could have re-thought about ways to make the website more unique and complex. Moon gave us examples such as, blurring out other elements in the background of the site or making the playing video larger than the paused one in the center of the screen. But, overall the change in interactivity meant I had to deconstruct the two videos I created and create eleven individual mini-films for the realities and expectations.

While editing, I tried my best to extract and emphasize the humor of the clips because, during the first showing of our rough cuts in class, everyone seemed to really enjoy this aspect. I deliberately used filters, music, transitions, slow-motion, and other effects to accomplish this while editing. For example, in some scenes such as Jon using chopsticks, I chose to have fast/upbeat music. Versus when Jon “misses” home in another scene I have sad, slow music –probably over dramatized.

In terms of my process, I started out by laying out the film in Final Cut Pro, choosing which takes (we had multiple takes for each scene) I wanted to use in the film. Then I trimmed down each clip and added in a title slide which tells the audience what the reality or expectation is and also includes a number ranging from 1-6. After I added this element, I used a freeze frame of the first frame and layered it on top of the title slide, then made the freeze frame black and white to draw the audience member’s attention to the words and not the background image. Next, I decided what music would best suit the clip. I used royalty free music I found online to add into most of the scenes. Finally, I increased the volume from the externally recorded audio, adjusted the color, and added in transitions and other extra style elements.

Overall, my personal goal for this project was to create high-quality videos, to improve my video editing skills, to learn something, and to enjoy the project. I believe I met all of these my goals with the help of my teammates.

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Week 11 – Internet Art Project – Milly

LInk:

http://panthermodern.org/

Various Rooms at panthermodern.org, Founded 2013

The internet art I found, Panther Modern, is a “file-based exhibition space” to “encourage artists to create site-specific installations for the internet”, as itself described. In this project,  what is really amazing is that the online art gallery architecture would grow along with every project gets involved. Each artwork in this museum would take up a new room. It’s really interesting of the idea to combine the housing based gallery location online with the digital fabrication, and the latest series of rooms continues to fill the 3D spaces with unexpected surprises. To this extent, it seems to have a tangible world inside the internet and each of the artwork exactly owns a physical space.

The current bird view of Panther

When you first log in the home page, all seventeen room, and their name would show up on the page clearly. While the background is guiding you around the museum.

 

Homepage 1

 

Homepage 2

Click and get in each room, you will find all of them were as if really exhibited on the water-floor. It gives you a feeling of visiting and hanging around in an art museum. The reflection from the water, cool spotlight, and the feeling of depth from the showing perspective invite the visitors into a virtual physical art museum.

Room 17

I really like this art project not only because it creates an online virtual gallery model to interact with the exhibited artworks, but also because it forms up a new relationship of art exhibition and virtual reality. It is rather like to add more reality to the online art community.  The gallery itself is also an artwork of the contradictory combination of reality and virtuality. The builder also takes advantage of the feature of the generative art of the computer as a medium to convey the message. Instead of simply assembling the artwork and show them, this website allows the user to interact with the process of visiting as if they are really visiting a physical art museum.

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Week 11: Net Art Example – Tenielle Ellis

I found a lot of unique, abstract examples of net art and thought they were so interesting because net art is a different form of art. I recently wrote an essay in another class about the importance of art, obscurity, and creativity because it speaks louder than words or a particular standard/convention of art. 

I really liked this piece of art specifically because it reminds me of a kaleidoscope, and whenever you press the cursor in different parts of the website, the colors and the shapes move around to create a very complex, yet simple mood. It also gives the user full control over what their experience will be, and what color motion or shape motion (or both combined) they want to see. It is a very creative, yet simple concept however I really like it and thought this was an interesting piece! Net Art should be more recognized like ‘regular’ art is.

The author, Raphael Rozendaal is one of the first visual artists to sell websites as art pieces, and is known for his abstract, interactive, and animated patterns. This is one of his pieces and his personality in his work definitely shows. He has his own taste and style and I appreciate that! Every art is unique and different in it’s own way.

P.S. – Instead of attaching screenshots, I thought to video the whole process of the website so as to show the correlation between moving the cursor and the changing of shape/color. Links below!

Video Record: IMG_0189.TRIM

Website Link: http://www.ifnoyes.com/%C2%A0

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Week 11 – Response to Internet Art Project – Daisy

Link: http://indirect.flights/

Indirect Flights, 2015, By Joe Hamilton

The net art I found is called Indirect Flights made by Joe Hamilton. The website, in Hamilton’s own word, is “a sprawling landscape of layered images”. The images he used for the website are taken during his travel to different places including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and also some online images. He rendered the images in a google map style and displayed different layers of images in an interactive way. Raw materials, satellite images, organic textures, brush strokes and architectural fragments are all blended together into a dense panorama extending in all directions. 

As the user scrolls to different directions, he/she will see different landscapes collage on the webpage. The artist blurs the boundary of different landscape and mixes together deserts, seas and the forests. The perspective he chooses is also interesting. Using an aerial view, he creates the feeling of watching these landscapes from the sky or the satellite view, which echoes the name of this project-indirect flight. It gives you a sense of sightseeing during the flight and drives you through the flight experience though you are not directly experiencing it. Meanwhile, he chooses photos of fence, windows, walls to enhance the feeling of “distance”. While he is trying to navigate the user to get closer to the landscape, he is also pushing them away by using the fences and windows as an interruption.

 

I like this net art project not only because it creates an interesting way of photo collage but also because it creates a space for photos to communicate and generate new meaning. The usage of brushes and photos also forms a contrast between the realistic object and abstract creation (like painting), a contrast of reality and imaginary. The artist also takes advantage of the feature of the website (or the internet) as a medium to convey the message. Instead of simply showcasing the artwork, the website allows the user to interact with different photos and creates more possibilities for the collage of photos.