Internet Art
To tell the truth, there hasn't been much fanfare or participation for internet based art. I had a bit of experience with it when I studied art, and it was treated more as another medium to express what the artist was trying to say.
Basically it dealt with the idea of nationality and how we go about defining or interacting with nationality. The most interesting part is in regards to Africa, and how we clump Africans as this entire entity on the planet, which in reality they have an ethnic and country diversity comparable to Europe. It had different flags of different countries representing the ethinic groups going in and out.
Only a few aspects are brought up by this idea of "internet art", most importantly the concept on how the global village is expotentially growing because of the internet. Nationality seems more indifferent when you are on the internet because the language you appropriate almost makes you that ethnicity.
Like I said before expressing this art idea through this medium wasn't anything that could have been expressed in other mediums; most noticiably video. It could be the fact that I haven't actively seeked out "internet art" for a while, but what I had seen so far has left me un-impressed. If anything it only provided more of a medium of exposure of the "art via internet" than actual expression of "internet art".
There are some interesting ideas behind internet art. The notion that any schmuck with internet connection and fortitude to build a website could make one from the "dime a hundred" cookie cutter sites on the internet such as geocities and tripod. The idea that art needs a form of anguish or effort seem to not apply to "Internet Art" in people's minds because of that ease.
I can contest buidling a website (in it's most purest HTML form) is indeed a task that rivals art methods. It could be the fact on how non-bohemian/mechanical the whole task of interacting with the internet might make people think that it is lazy. Afterall you are sitting down in front of a screen with a machine whose main function nowadays is to make life easier. There seems to be no actual "direct manipulation" of the medium, more of an indirect one. I imagine that these ideas can be applied to CG cartoons and such.
But I think I actually came upon one of the few real "Internet Art" pages on the web. I am willing to say that I got "egg on my face" if this is in actuality not art motivated or some kinda stupid pratical joke. I think that the boundries of art are so blurred now (or at least theoretically should be) that this can be indeed considered art.
Why I think this is so good as "Internet Art" is the fact that hey, it really utilizes the basic means of what art is, a form of representation. In the beginning, people didn't instantly go abstraction expressionism or conceptual, art was a form of history, record and representation of reality.
I think that this website is where Internet Art should be going because it starts out not as medium to delve into with what art is current, but as a way to express art in the medium the artist chose. With clicks of the button, manipulation of the viewer, we have an interaction with the art.
Where in the past, art was visual, it played on the natural idea of sight. Witnesses were used to show what happened in the past and if not possible the record of what happened can be represented through painting or sculpture. When art enters the medium of the internet, this website succeeds because it follows that same vein of of the natural because it ultilizes the interaction we all do on the internet. Pop-ups, changing pictures, java etc.
but here is the website. Yes.
Superbad.com
EDIT: I found out...it is web art. Score one for me.
To tell the truth, there hasn't been much fanfare or participation for internet based art. I had a bit of experience with it when I studied art, and it was treated more as another medium to express what the artist was trying to say.
Basically it dealt with the idea of nationality and how we go about defining or interacting with nationality. The most interesting part is in regards to Africa, and how we clump Africans as this entire entity on the planet, which in reality they have an ethnic and country diversity comparable to Europe. It had different flags of different countries representing the ethinic groups going in and out.
Only a few aspects are brought up by this idea of "internet art", most importantly the concept on how the global village is expotentially growing because of the internet. Nationality seems more indifferent when you are on the internet because the language you appropriate almost makes you that ethnicity.
Like I said before expressing this art idea through this medium wasn't anything that could have been expressed in other mediums; most noticiably video. It could be the fact that I haven't actively seeked out "internet art" for a while, but what I had seen so far has left me un-impressed. If anything it only provided more of a medium of exposure of the "art via internet" than actual expression of "internet art".
There are some interesting ideas behind internet art. The notion that any schmuck with internet connection and fortitude to build a website could make one from the "dime a hundred" cookie cutter sites on the internet such as geocities and tripod. The idea that art needs a form of anguish or effort seem to not apply to "Internet Art" in people's minds because of that ease.
I can contest buidling a website (in it's most purest HTML form) is indeed a task that rivals art methods. It could be the fact on how non-bohemian/mechanical the whole task of interacting with the internet might make people think that it is lazy. Afterall you are sitting down in front of a screen with a machine whose main function nowadays is to make life easier. There seems to be no actual "direct manipulation" of the medium, more of an indirect one. I imagine that these ideas can be applied to CG cartoons and such.
But I think I actually came upon one of the few real "Internet Art" pages on the web. I am willing to say that I got "egg on my face" if this is in actuality not art motivated or some kinda stupid pratical joke. I think that the boundries of art are so blurred now (or at least theoretically should be) that this can be indeed considered art.
Why I think this is so good as "Internet Art" is the fact that hey, it really utilizes the basic means of what art is, a form of representation. In the beginning, people didn't instantly go abstraction expressionism or conceptual, art was a form of history, record and representation of reality.
I think that this website is where Internet Art should be going because it starts out not as medium to delve into with what art is current, but as a way to express art in the medium the artist chose. With clicks of the button, manipulation of the viewer, we have an interaction with the art.
Where in the past, art was visual, it played on the natural idea of sight. Witnesses were used to show what happened in the past and if not possible the record of what happened can be represented through painting or sculpture. When art enters the medium of the internet, this website succeeds because it follows that same vein of of the natural because it ultilizes the interaction we all do on the internet. Pop-ups, changing pictures, java etc.
but here is the website. Yes.
Superbad.com
EDIT: I found out...it is web art. Score one for me.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home