GREAT HALL WRITEUP - draft

ADAPTATION Simple yet effective process of encountering artworks in great hall and linking these to online adaptation/remix/counterparts/documentation via multiple interfaces. Hubs might include : -- monintors scrolling images in Great Hall -- computer access -- analogue text generator -- QR code link -- URL -- something for mobile devices It could be artist interacting with their own work or potentially audience interacting (chat, voice messaging, live remix station) -- Twitter feed Performance & VLOG & YouTube or other online performative feed / webcam live to live connective station between different parts of the university. Short wave cast of 2 channels (retrotech) or just transmit material to your house / cache process / level of immediacy - some kind of pressure for things to happen or turnover -SUMO CRCP - critical framework / TBC - we will think about how to contextualize the online/Great Hall intervention or conversation/counterpart process Technical Equipment List Webspace --> already have it Domain name --> purchase that web cams / other interfaces may need computers (mac minis) or iPads, iPod touches Potential print component w/ address of work online

Assignment #1
Natasha Kennedy

Recently I read an article on readwriteweb.com, which had to do with Wikipedia shutting down for a day to raise awareness of the SOPA bill that has now been scrapped. In particular, what the authors point was to say that there will always be bills lobbying for things, much like the SOPA bill and we need to step up as citizens and make the effort to stay informed in order to keep a close eye on our government. Granted, the SOPA bill was in the US but I found the point no less pertinent to Canadians.

I do know a lot of people who are politically informed but even more people who aren’t. To sort of narrow it down to one specific group, I see a lot of youth who are apathetic to politics and the government. I remember when I was younger (than I am now) and impartial myself to what was going on in Canada, I had this idea that with age I would just become politically aware and it was just a matter of time, not a matter of effort. That’s the attitude I see frequently from a lot of young people I talk to about politics and Canada.

So what I'm driving at here is I would like my project to have a specific objective to raise awareness to today’s youth. I would like to create something that would encourage young people to get involved with political process in Canada. I would like them to realize that there are things they can do to make Canada the way they want it. I want to tell them their thoughts, opinions, needs, and wants matter and that they can take part in shaping the future of Canada.

How I’d like to do this is through youtube and potentially spreading to other online social networks like twitter, facebook and the like. This is where a bit of performance is required. I would like to create a personality to go a long with a “vlog” (video-blog) where I would express ideas like the ones mentioned above. The personality I would like to present with my character is one of a ditsy, stereotypical “dumb” girl in the way that she acts. I would express my ideas in very simplified, dumbed down terms while saying the work “like” or “totally” more than a lot.

With the passing of the 2011 Canadian Federal and provincial elections and the negligence of a lot of young people to vote a thought became apparent to me. I think a lot of youth see themselves as naïve and unaware and therefore unable to make decisions for the future of Canada and think it best to leave the decision making to the older and assumed “wiser” Canadian citizens. With this made up persona I will invent, I want to mimic a projection of a type of youth that is naïve and unaware which would serve as an exaggeration of the attitude I see from a lot of Canadian youth.

However, I am still considering the qualities of this fictitious character I will create for this project as I want to consider what sort of qualities younger people should respond to while still sticking with productive ideas to encourage youth to take an active role in learning about Canada and the decisions Canadian government is making for its citizens and what they can do to affect these decisions. I do admit, this does leave me open to vulnerability. With the use of youtube, I’ll be viewed (hopefully) by large number of people and though the character I represent isn’t necessarily me, the ideas are mine. With that, I am aware that I’m leaving these ideas open to much criticism which is a challenge I have been reluctant to take on in the past but I think is necessary as an artist.

Article Mentioned

This is how you post a photo.

Assignment 1: Carolyn Armstrong

New Gallery

For my website I wanted to create an online gallery that showcases local art and artists and takes advantage of the interactivity of the Internet. I am interested in created a website as a destination instead of an archive; what I mean by that is the website will be focused on new content that will remain on the site for a fixed period of time. The format for the site will consist of fore main pages. First a home page with a logo, a calendar listing dates of future shows, live events, and the end date of the current artists works. On the home page their will be three links showing the three exhibits that will be currently showing, each website will be created by or with the help of the showcased artist. Each exhibit will have an opening night and a closing night with live video interview and interaction from online viewers. I want to see a more well rounded online gallery that showcases full art exhibits and give the viewer a chance to ask the artist questions and for the artist to answer in an interesting and organized way. The set life span for that gallery’s will help artist give artist more control over their art and encourage visitors to the website to comment and interact. If an exhibition is up for a fixed period of time and there is a set date for a live video response for comments on the website it will encourage to comment and to come back for the closing night to hear from the artist them selves. There is no shortage for art on the Internet but there is a shortage for context for that art and by allowing the artist to create the gallery space and host live shows talking about their art we can bring some of what makes a gallery important in to web.art.
I also think it’s important to note that this online gallery could host art that is web specific and that can be hard to bring in to real world galleries. I would like to create a space that feels less like a list of art and more like a curated space for art that is constantly changing. My favorite part of the Internet is the speed at witch it can react to new ideas and trends. My website will constantly be discontinuing content in order to ensure that the new content always gets the spot light. All of the art showcased on this website will have time to be appreciated and for word of mouth to spread, many art blogs and websites change their front page every day and wile I think this is a valid way to maintain a website I am going in a different direction. I would like to see works displayed on the front page for three weeks with the three exhibitions on rotation so that each week one of the exhibitions is replaced with a new three week long exhibition. With this format there will be new content on a weekly basis but each exhibit will have time to be discovered and enjoyed. Art Websites need to find a balance between posting new content and promoting the content that’s already on their site and with my website I think I have struck that balance.

Assignment #1

For this assignment I want to create a website that acts as a search engine allowing individuals to look for photographers both well known and emerging. As well as share their personal work and websites. Instead of using subject keywords or artists names however you would type in emotions and or gestures in the search bar placed on the main page. Below the search bar there would be several options that would allow the user to make a broader search, giving results for artists and websites, or to browse for single images. In this option only one photograph at a time would appear on the page with the artists name and a link to their website (If they wish to look at more of their work). If you click the next bar located below the photograph another image would appear that fits the emotion or gesture provided by the user. There would be an option to add more emotions or gestures to allow a wider range of work to be displayed.

On the main page of the website there would be an option for ‘signing in’ or ‘creating an account’. Signing in would allow the user to tag their own work or websites with different emotions or gestures. Other artists could ‘agree’ or ‘disagree’ with tags others have added to their work or suggest ‘alternative’ or ‘additional tags’. The user would not be able to alter the information themselves but the artist would get a notification if a different emotion or gesture was attributed to their work. Thus, allowing their photographs to have additional tags that would help generate a larger result in the main page. In account setting the artists can include a link to their website as well as individual photographs so their work can show up under both search options. Their personal page would include a brief description of the photographs they have chosen to display as well as a link to their personal website and links to favorites found through the search engine.

            Users can also bookmark links or images they particularly like that will show up on their account, further linking artists to each other and providing suggestions of websites for other users. The concept behind the website is to allow emerging artist to gain more attention and to create a network with other photographers in their area. It would allow individuals to see work that might not normally appear at the top of a normal search engine website. Personal accounts would have the option of including contact information through their websites. The specific gestures and emotion keyword options could be endless . Single images could have multiple tags allowing for a more refined search on the main page.

            I do not have a lot of experience working with web-based programs so I am sure that this idea will change as I go along. I want the website to connect photographers in their community as well as worldwide. Providing individuals with a way of getting their work seen by a larger group and establishing a network with those who share the same interests in photography. 

           

Antti: Assignment 1

A network for graffiti artists and enthusiasts to submit art work and share new findings. Users could decide if they want to share the location of the graffiti too. That way you could navigate throughout the map and find pieces close to your current location, much like finding nearby restaurants for example. The location based catalogue would be a huge asset for the site because it's much more rewarding seeing the graffitis in person rather than just looking at pictures online.

The community would be closed/restricted, so users need to register on the site first (maybe even "accepted" before getting a membership). Having some kind of filter would prevent people destroying the graffitis on purpose.

After the user has created an account, he/she could befriend other graffiti artists and share information with them directly (like any other social network basically), browse for graffitis based on most viewed, most recent and location.

When users submit new artwork, it doesn't have to be their own creation (can you copyright a graffiti?). In the end getting new material constantly would be essential for the site to work. The site could be converted into a mobile application too, and I think this would engage users to get out and discover the artwork by themselves a lot more.

Liam: Assignment 1

            My website would consist of a single page that forms an extended text constructed from dynamic internet content. When a user accesses the site, the page queries the most recent, public, Twitter update. Using the number of characters in said update in conjunction with several specific numbers, the site invests itself in a specific total with which to engage in broader content.

            The resultant number is used to pick specific words from both the most recent New York Times articles, as well as a selection of texts taken from Google Books. For example, if the number resulting from the Twitter process is “60,” the site would take the 60^th word from the most recent article in The New York Times newswire, followed by the 45^th, followed by the 55^th and the 120^th, 90^th and 115^th, until the five most recent articles are exhausted. The same process would exact itself on one of several texts sourced from Google Books, (Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology work for me at the moment, but such a structure allows for anything, to be used, really) forming a repeating pattern of words taken from each parallel process.

            The website takes the form of an extended text derived from the above processes. The page would continue as the user scrolled down, (much in the way Tumblr or various Google products allow) appearing as one continuous work. The page would extend itself downwards until the viewer loses interest, or the sources of text exhaust themselves. The nature of the work allows for it to be repeated (refreshed) ad infinitum, each page load resulting in a different text. The technology also guarantees that the site never draws too long on a stale referent, The New York Times shifting content constantly.

            The site operates as a piece in its own right, but also as a tool or component for further works. The three-part structure I am interested in requires a Grammatalogical misology, (this work) an occult instance (or cultural perpetuation) and a production. This website could serve as the former element in such a process, as it refigures meaning and referent, without substituting or abandoning either. However, it could just as easily be used as a tool for reading the future, conducting trances, or as a more effective means of taking in information from the internet. 

 

Christian's site map

This is the basic layout for a site called Project Raw. Essentially it explores issues around creative liberties in music production while using a democratic user voting system as a means to protest against governing bodies within music recording studios.

It is named Project Raw because throughout its process it relies on the raw musical talent uploaded by the viewing public. It also refines this raw product through user and viewer voting.

I forsee this as an ongoing experiment modeled from programs like Canada s got talent etc. where viewer participation is essential.

The content on the site in terms of music is made up of hip hop instrumentals and amateur vocal recordings. All user uploaded content will be posted online and then promoted and voted upon by the public. The use of online, cellular/mobile voting as a means of live interaction would be broadcast through the web as well as projected on public spaces creating a communal hype i.e. Yonge and Dundas Square. etc

The process could include 4 phases:

Phase 1: uploaded instrumental music is voted through then promoted.

Phase 2: vocal renditions on the elected instrumentals are voted upon.

Phase 3: would involve the voting public to refine the talent through constructive criticisms.

Phase 4: And finally the "finished product" would benefit not only through this entire process but would also be endorsed by the site which would include promotion and access to higher quality recording technology via studios wanting to get in on the action.

The goal of the project would be to illustrate most prominently the presence of raw musical talent otherwise unheard of in the city. Secondly, it would liberate musical creativity from the heavily influenced in-studio setting. And finally integrate the public in an interactive project exploring the use of personal technologies in augmented spaces around the city.

Hennesy Youngman on Damien Hirst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_8DWg5W0w

Project #1: Site Map & Project Description

For this assignment, my plan is to create a web presence that I refer to as the ‘Hybrid Photo Experience’ that displays my photographic art work in a creative and unique way. Instead of creating just an online web portfolio in order to display my abilities as a photographer, I thought treating it as a ‘create your own adventure’ narrative depending on who the user is would be a neat way to navigate the user through my head space; literally. I want this web-based project to function like the association game, only using my photographs as associations instead of words.

My homepage will only feature a portrait of myself from the shoulders up. There will be various places within the portrait that will link you to other photographs through a process of lowered opacity hover over’s that create a hybrid of my personal photographs with my face. The linked photographs, which will be several per page, will be organized based upon colour and shape of the original photograph it was linked to; this way the connecting photographs will not only blend with the original self portrait, but will allow for the narrative to unfold and expand upon itself. It also gives the option for the user to navigate or move through my website depending on what exactly they are attracted to in terms of colours and shapes. This is because I personally feel that keeping it simple is the best way to captivate a larger audience, especially those who aren’t necessarily familiar with art or the message or meaning behind a photograph.
My mind map shows only a few options per photograph but I want the final product to be a time consuming navigation through my archive of personal photographs, having several path options for each photograph. With that being said, once the user has chosen a particular pathway, they can’t go back until they reach the loop page; this takes them back to the homepage where they began, allowing the user to start an entirely new adventure.
I feel the hybrid aspect of this project is important not only for the interactivity of the user but because I as an artist am fascinated with the idea of transformation. Having the hover overs allows for the viewer/user to partake in the transformation of my artwork virtually; they can see all the hybrid forms before choosing a path to travel upon. I also feel that it engages the viewer to think about visual associations and how photographs can work together to create a narrative based off of highly simple traits since there will be little to no text while navigating through my website; and in some ways it makes it more universal because language barriers don’t come into play.

what i mentioned at the end of my presentation///

an older David Horvitz work that aptly describes a sentiment I've been obsessing over lately

internet usage

My use of the internet from the past week:
Youtube: 4 Hours, Hotmail: 1 Hour, Skype/ Msn:  7 hours, Crunchy Roll: 3 Hours, Ign/ Gametrailers: 1 and a half hours.

Project 1: Proposal/ Discription (Lorne Tingle)

      Throughout the week multiple ideas have came through my head with creating a project that involves creating something for the digital domain. Such ideas range from the use of augment reality to some extent, web based ideas, and use of webcam access. (e.g chat roulette). Many mind maps have been created as a process of finding a ground point for a idea to start, over time the main ground point for all of my ideas is based around idea of implementing user generated content in a artist/ abstract form. From this I have further narrowed my view towards the incorporation of webcam enabling. 

      The idea that I’m pitching on is to create a sort of online community/ project that will keep track of/ record peoples appearances throughout a timely matter hopeful from around the world. I Hope to either incorporate a way for webcams to capture what people as they are on their computers while logged on/ have the site open or in a tab. Or perhaps a easier method in which people can upload pictures from their computer and possible connect to social websites. From there I hope to have all the pictures/ videos to be collected and kept for the entire day and then be refreshed at the strike of 12 am thus allowing new faces/ pictures to emerge.  These pictures will be seen in multiple views that can be selected differently per personal choice. Some views that have come to mind: a sort of “global view” which will be more for the casual department.  Users will be lead to a simple upload page in which files can be placed into a database that will rearrange the pictures via these view styles. For the Global View users will be allowed to pic which country they live in and if they wish to be kept anonymously about where they live in the world they will perhaps float in space etc (That has yet to be fully though through yet). But for the other styles these faces will be organized in different ways that will not me considered by country but perhaps gender, sexual preference etc. These ways will not bluntly show who belongs into what area but just to question the users comfortably with giving out personal information to social websites. In order for the website to be kept relative and have new fresh ideas/ stylistic presentations a forum will be created that will be run by mods to gather popular input and do their best to program such ideas into the website.  

heres my description which is also a working model: http://webspace.ocad.ca/~dc09fg/example.html

and heres my use of the web since last week, this week was odd, I didn't use the internet at all:

4Chan, Apug 1 hour, hotmail

wiki 6 hours

apug 2.5 hour, b and h, camera quest, ebay, craigslist, hotmail

b and h, impossible project, camera quest 2 hours

facebook 1/2 hour
youtube 2 hours
youtube 3 hours

Personal Interests_E-Publication_Hanes

My contribution to - and interest in - the publication, in which Arielle, mike and I are collaborating on, is to explore idea's of the personal and public strata and their relationships to creative processes where technology cultures are either literally referenced and/or used. Like my counterparts, exploring themes of sentimentalism, revealing, sincerity and Romantic Conceptualism are embedded in my interests but along with these I would like to bulk up on concerns with: collecting/hoarding, branding, objectification and re-contextualization. Currently, my goals are to complete a semi-fictional, diaristic comparison between Stick n'Pokes and video dating, an image essay on Vastness, and an ellaboration on a collaborative project between myself and artist: Bunny Rogers.


A big part of this, I think, is to help myself and reveal to others my interests in art and how the work of my friends and myself influence and inform one another. As well, my primary focus is on artists with performative practices.


Artists I would like to include are:

BUNNY ROGERS

"Sister Unn's - Ice Rose"

www.sister-unns.com

w/ Fillip Olszewski

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"Untitled" (from 9Years Project)

22"x14.5"

Lenticular Print

FRIEDA-RAY GREEN

"Mandala HTML", 2011

HTML Loop

"Black Hole Wallpaper I"

Digital image

and

DAVID HANES (myself)

"Untitled" or "i'm not going to say one single word, i'm not even going to make any kind of effect, not one effort. try to understand how i am feeling, try to picture what's going through my mind. i need you to feel me on this, plz."
Single Channel Video, 5:00, 2011 - 2012

"Domes_2"

Digital Image

Collaboration w/ Bunny Rogers

Photo Credit: Joseph Tremblay

vimeo.com/16327448

Publication Proposal (Arielle)

I would like to focus on the inclusion of women artists and writers in this project. In my own critical writing, I have gravitated towards work made by women. This is both a conscious strategy and an honest reflection of where my interests lie. I am often drawn to work that presents a feminine perspective, whatever a "feminine" perspective entails (I am particularly compelled by the films of Catherine Breillat). I am also interested in artists that lend a feminist reading to certain art-historical movements, such as the post-Minimal practices of Eva Hesse, Hannah Wilke, Polly Apfelbaum, and Lily van der Stokker. Most importantly, the strongest online alliances I have formed have been with other women, namely Bunny Rogers and Marie Calloway.

I will now write about three artists I would like to include in the publication, Marie Calloway being one of them.

I became familiar with Marie's writing around a year ago. I stumbled upon her personal tumblr by chance, and was struck by how similar our interests were. Also a twenty-one year old university student, Marie writes mainly about Marxism, sexuality, identity, and pop culture. She writes diaristic, first-person stories under a pseudonym (Marie Calloway is not her real name). She has received a sizable amount of attention in the past few months, both negative and positive, regarding her story Adrien Brody. Most of the discussion around the work questions centers on its moral and feminist implications. Her writing has been compared often to Chris Kraus's, particularly I Love Dick. I think it is fair to say that Marie is writing in this tradition, with the connotations of writing about one's personal life being complicated by the parameters of online networked space.


The second artist whose work I am considering is Fumiko Imano. Fumiko lives in Japan and comes from a fashion background, having worked in the past with Charles Anastase and SHOWstudio. Her body of work consists mainly of self-portraits. She almost always appears in double, dressed in "matching" self-styled outfits. I like how her photographs bear obvious relation to the construction of identity - mainly through the activity of dressing up, one that is associated with women - without setting forth this idea as a didactic conceptual decision. While she works mostly in analog media, she maintains an interesting online presence with her personal blog and Youtube channel.

The third artist I am thinking about is Jamie Felton. Jamie is a young artist who recently began graduate school. Her projects vary greatly in terms of media, as she works across installation, video, books, painting, and text. Some of her work seems directly related to the history of feminist practices (an attempt to include the body, a reconsideration of formalism using "feminine" forms, etc), engaging at the same time with Internet and post-Conceptual practices. I have spoken to Jamie before of our mutual interest in Bas Jan Ader, who seems to be a strong influence on her.



I made a text piece dedicated to Jamie in 2010:

What brings these artists together is my personal relationship to each of them and the nature of their practices. Each one uses the Internet as an avenue for presenting and creating work, though would not consider themselves (I believe) to be Internet Artists.

Individual Proposal (Mike Goldby)

For our group publication, my personal interests are mainly and currently revolving around a renewed interest in photography and it's place in digital culture, and ideas of identity construction in online spheres via trending and branding, as well as how this construction of identity relates to the practice of art making. An overarching interest that all members involved in the publication have is the idea of sincerity on the internet. Techinically im excited to develop a print publication and learning uses of type, line and shape, aswell as developing a dynamic web template that allows user to draw conclusions between seperate editorial elements.

Some artists I'm interested in enquiring about collaborations/commissions are:

Kate Steciw
Kate Seciw is a photo-installation artist. I'm interested in her ideas about photography and pushing the image beyond a 2D plane, and her meshing of virtual and actual image objects and elements.



Jennifer Chan
I'm interested in Jennifer Chan as a critical thinker and artist, how her curatorial and her studio practice work together to interrogate ideas about sincerity and irony in the online sphere.

Im inspired by the design aesthetic of artists/designers like Hanna Therese Nilsson, Andreas Banderas and Rasmus Svensson.

Publication Proposal (Mike, David, Arielle)

The impetus for this project is a shared set of artistic and intellectual interests. Each of us has expressed interest in starting an online editorial/curatorial project, and want to use this class to act upon this goal. The three of us have maintained a number of blogs over the years, mostly using Blogspot and Tumblr as platforms. These sites have been mainly imaged-based, while the class project will be text-heavy and more critical in nature. There is a desire to say more than "I like this," to do more than select an artwork or .jpg to stand in as an avatar of ourselves. With this publication, we would like to work through specific issues pertaining to contemporary art and culture. Though the three of us will contribute, the most important element will be commissioned artworks and essays from artists and writers of our choice.

Common points of reference are Romantic Conceptualism, New Sincerity and the status of irony, the role (or possibility, even) of self-expression in contemporary art, and the navigation of identity in online spaces. Many of the artists we want to include are shared favorites (Bunny Rogers, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jennifer Chan), though each of us will choose contributors that hold personal resonance. The basis for this project is the group's pool of shared interests and preferences, with the site acting as a mechanism for each member to explore these texts and ideas.

We are inspired by a number of web-based publications turned out by our peers, and wish to contribute to this conversation. Two models we look to are http://pooool.info/ and http://pwrshare.info/. Pool acts as a platform for the discussion of topics relating to New Media art and digital culture. The contributions come from young artists and writers, ranging from traditional academic essays to more personal reflections on individual artistic practices. The main elements we look to here are the promotion of critical inquiry and the creation of content from a group of invite-based contributors. PWRSHARE is the Internet component of the quarterly published PWRPAPER. Every few months, the PWRSHARE website is updated with visual and written works from a new group of contributors, while the corresponding PWRPAPER publication offers a printed counterpart to the website. Due to the differences between print and online media, the twin publications complement rather than directly replicate each other. As a group, we are excited by the prospect of preparing a print component to accompany our online project. This will require us to conceptualize a project that goes beyond strict analog/digital binaries. Ideally, this would encourage an approach to website design that utilizes characteristics particular to the web, namely ones that could not be reproduced in print.

At this point, we have devised a basic layout for the website. The site would consist of only one page, with no separate "about" or "contact" pages. Each element of the publication - audio, video, text, or image - would appear on the page as its own item that can be clicked on and expanded. Instead of the content being presented in a static format, we would like for items to continually load as one scrolls down the page. The main goal is to move away from an interface that utilizes or mimics pre-available templates from websites like Wordpress.

The three of us are active within the Internet Art community but do not wish to limit our project to this sphere. We previously worked together on Barmecidal Projects, which was explicitly net-oriented in its fixation on materiality and online versus offline space. Our publication will move away from this framework both through the artists selected and through the inclusion of a print-based element in our mandate.

Project #1 (Sydney)

Assignment #1: Description/Proposal

I’d like to create a relatively simple, image-based conversation network, providing artists with the opportunity to anonymously collaborate with one another, at random, to develop what I will refer to as ‘conversation’ portfolios. Similar to traditional chainmail, individuals will sign up to participate by inputting either a valid cell phone number or email address. This information will be added to a hidden directory containing the contact info for all users. In the preliminary stages, the network will remain relatively closed. I will recruit a limited group of artists to participate and will probably collect the contact information via email, while I work out the logistics of developing this project.

To “speak” or begin a conversation, a user will upload a jpg image of original content (this project is intended to be a communications technology-based means of collective art production amongst practicing artists, not necessarily an open outlet for re-blogging and mash-ups). The uploaded image will then be forwarded along with the conversation number to a second user, selected at random. The recipient will then have the opportunity to respond by uploading an image to the website under the same conversation thread. If the recipient uploads an image, the original image that they are responding to is posted on the website as a numbered conversation for the public to see or eavesdrop on. At the same time, the response image uploaded by the second user is forwarded to a third user via the randomized directory, with hopes it will ignite a response.

If a user receives an image and decides not to respond for whatever reason, the offer will time out after two days and the image will be forwarded to the next random user on the list. If an image is not responded to within fourteen days (if seven users in a row miss the opportunity to respond), the image will be posted on the website as an open conversation – any user can pick it up where it left off by uploading a response image to the same conversation thread.

On the conversation directory page, visitors to the website will be presented with a layered web of images from the various conversations that have taken place. The directory will be cluttered but the newest conversations will be at the top. Picking out a particular image or conversation to focus on will be much like trying to eavesdrop on one conversation in a restaurant filled with people who are talking. There will be all kinds of conversations going on at once and images that are newly added or closest to you in the web will be easier to read than those that are older or further away. Eventually, if conversations are continuously being initiated, the early images will be lost behind a dense web of linear conversations through images that are continuously being added to and replaced by more recent additions to the web.

The website itself will be comprised mainly of images and very little text. Options such as “speak up” (to post a new conversation), “respond” (to add to a conversation), and “eavesdrop” (to view the conversation directory/web), will probably be the only words on the site, along with the conversation numbers. Users will remain anonymous and no titles will be given to the works. This will be an experiment in visual interpretation and rather secretive communication between artists. My hope is that the site will attract a range of artists who actively participate in this anonymous visual collaboration.

As an extension of this project, the conversation portfolios could be extracted and printed as accordion books. A gallery exhibition could also be held, with invitations to all participating artists. The anonymous digital imaging conversationalists would be given the opportunity to verbally converse in person and disassemble their image threads not only by figuring out who did what, but by discussing what each of the artists’ intentions really were.

I don’t have much experience creating web-based works, so I assume that much of this will change as I work through it and discover how to make it work. I like the idea of leaving the conversations a little more open to responses so that they aren’t all completely linear, but I’m not quite sure how difficult that will be to do. Regardless, I’d like the work to be a random, continuously growing collection of creative visual communications where the older posts get more difficult to read as they become buried by the newest additions.

Hello!

Okay, hello everyone! I'm Sydney.
I'm a fourth year photo major - directed studio.

Looking forward to graduating in June.

I'm not too confident when it comes to this whole integrated media,

web-based artwork thing - it's pretty new to me. 

Please don't make fun of me :)
I'll do the best I can.

I made my art/portfolio website using iWeb. 

You can view it here: www.sydneyrose.ca

I'm also doing self-directed study (The Dictionary Project) 

where I create a weekly image based on 3 randomly chosen words from 

- you guessed it - a dictionary, and are uploaded here:

http://thedictionaryphotoproject.blogspot.com/

(As well as on my art/portfolio website).

✿✿✿intro✿✿✿

hi, i'm arielle

this is me

this is also me

(i look a bit different in real life since i usually wear glasses)

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you can find me here

http://dragonauttt.tumblr.com/

and here

http://www.dragonauttt.blogspot.com/

;-)

jan 18th

http://www.sopastrike.com/

Check it out guys! Black out your website if you have one ;)

Tegan Tough

Figured I should introduce myself ...
sooo I'm Tegan for those of you who don't know me.

My website is currently in shambles
so my tumblr will have to suffice ;) (hyperlink YEAAAH)

Also:
check out The Wilderness Downtown

It's pretty rad!


CHEERS~


"The other I", 2011

Thought this was appropriate... muahaha

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A Ferris Wheel Performance from David FM Hanes on Vimeo.

I'm also on twitter

nice to meet you

David Clark

these are photos of me

this is my website: http://www.thegreatestartistintheuniverse.com/

hi im mike
my website is http://divisibilities.tumblr.com and http://mikegoldby.com

some things to look at for tomorrow's class

cory arcangel at the Whitney

Rhododendron, curated by Harm van den Dorpel at W139, Amsterdam / SPACE London


Plus the Lynda.com tutorial on Dreamweaver 1.1 (see "Assignments" on My Courses)

We are going to be talking about site maps - below is a site map of Wikipedia

And here is a site map from Vera Frenkel's really early "Body Missing" web site

Welcome - and heads up re: Lev Manovich

Hi All -

I will be sending you invites to the blog - please accept ASAP before these expire.

FYI - Lev Manovich is scheduled to give a talk at OCAD U in March - one of the reasons I've really focused on his writing in our "required" list - he has made most of his writing available online w/ Creative Commons license, so do take a long look at levmanovich.net