Thursday, October 30, 2008

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.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

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.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

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.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Second Weekly Post (for 10/14)

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