Sixth Weekly Post (for 11/18/2008)

URL: http://www.boogaholler.com/webart/thegrid.html

Artist: Brian Judy

Title/Date: The Grid (2000)

Category: Abstraction

Function: The given description states: "High energy games and toys for the practicing art consumer." Without reading this I do not think I would have understood this as much. Since this is an abstraction, I see this as someone trying to create a game or toy for a child. This artwork depicts the process to create a new toy or game. When you start going somewhere, you think you have an idea of a sequence or order. However like this piece, at first you won't get to where you want. After you click on something you think you have it figured out but have to "go back to the drawing board" as an toy inventor would while creating a game.

Fifth Weekly Post (for 11/11/2008)

URL:  http://benfry.com/anemone/applet/

Artist:  Ben Fry

Title/Date:  2001

Category:  Animation

Function:  The artwork is an animation based on an algorithm that moves alone.  However, the viewer is able to interact and move the parts of the image.  In doing so, text appears or disappears above the selected section.

Also, this work is similar to the marine plant, this artwork seems to attack the little floating dots that get near it.  When you click to move a piece of the work, text appears on the screen.

Mandala Critique #2 (6th weekly)

URL:  Juleah Chandler

This particular Mandala reminds me of using a spirograph in elementary school.  The thin lines give it a unique quality that attracted my attention to this mandala.

However, the blue lines and the small circles give a feeling of outer space.  While the center moves somewhat slow, the outer circles seem to orbit around in a constant pattern.

When I tried to stop the circles, I noticed not everything on this mandala has a button.  Some movements can't be stopped which I think works well.

Fifth Weekly Post

URL: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/Distance/index.html

Artist: Tina LaPorta

Title/Date: Distance (1999)

Category: Video

Function: A sequence of images that tells a narrative about a person exploring life online. As our characters interact, they create distance or destroy it by how they use their technology.

Rodchenko Site Map

Mandala Critique #1

URL: Decellus Mandala

A few things come to mind when I look at this Mandala. First, I watch this mandala and picture it in a rave or techno setting. The music especially adds to the idea of this being shown in a dark room with a DJ around somewhere.

For me, the direction of the movie clips works well. The bar bouncing from one direction, stopping, then continuing another direction again is cool. It's different from the rest of the mandala and sets it apart from everything else.

Overall, the music, button placement, and the images hold together nicely.

Third Weekly Post

URL:  http://web.tiscali.it/wayneriggs/

Artist: Wayne Riggs

Title/Date : Abstractions on the Internet (2001)

Category: Abstraction

Function: The following is one abstraction.  However, there  are many more abstractions in the artist's gallery.  Riggs experiments with several processes.  Such as watercolor, different pastels, and charcoal on papyrus paper and views how each work of art translates on the Internet.

Second Weekly Post (for 10/14)

URL:  http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/fall2003/

   nine/nine.htm

Artist:  Jason Lewis

Title/Date:  Nine (2001)

Category:  Narrative

Function:  The artist tells a story through images of a puzzle and words.  Once a piece is moved, part of the story with words appears but the image changes when clicked/dragged.  So, the linear story becomes somewhat chaotic when shifting through the puzzle to try unfolding the story from the images.

First Weekly Post

URL: Fair e-Tales

Artists: Jon Ippolito, Keith Frank, Joline Blais

Title/Date: Fair e-Tales (2000)

Category: Humor

Function: "Three interfaces that allow viewers to alter the underlying premises of traditional fables."