Week 11: Internet Art – Sebastian Lau (Chen)

After doing some looking around I came across this interesting website: https://www.jimpunk.com/

To me, it’s pretty abstract so I don’t really know what’s going on, but there’s a ton of stuff to explore within the site. Each of the keys on the “laptop” corresponds to a different page and a little image pops up when you hover over them. The text at the bottom of the laptop also changes. 

When I clicked on this key it transported me to a page which opened up more pop-up pages. 

The site also uses a lot of ASCII art (as can be seen by the homepage). If you look at the person’s twitter (the blue box thing with wingdings or something) the artist posts web-based art (like emojis and ASCII). The website strikes me as old due to its design, but the artist keeps it somewhat updated (there was a “post” on one of his pages from 2016. His Twitter is more regularly updated I believe. There was also a page talking about copyright/plagiarism which reminded me of the article we read about interpreting people’s art in different ways and whether that counts as plagiarism. The page linked to blog posts written in a language I couldn’t understand, but on the page, the author was pretending to be an artist that was okay with stealing and reappropriating art. 

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