Describes a form of artwork that exists only in the computerized realm. Not tangible, work of this sort can be found on the World Wide Web, also considered cyberspace or the Internet. The media created is a consistent string of repeating animations, which can or cannot be interactive. The most abundant source is found in various advertisements throughout the Internet.
Other forms attempt to allow users on their personal computers to use keyboard and mouse functions to either play with or control the work itself. Media such as this cannot be appreciated anywhere beyond these basic functions.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
2. Is "netart", Art?
Whether or not “netart” is actually artwork greatly depends on how the work functions, and how it is does or doesn’t have an impact upon the viewer. Much of what if often considered netart isn’t art at all, but a simply construction of basic loops and layers that replays endlessly.
For a piece of Internet artwork to be considered art means it has to go beyond that which tangible work can go. There are limits to sculptures, painting, printed media, and various other forms of artwork that art on the net does not have. Since artwork on the net doesn’t technically exist, it has the ability to allow users to touch the work in other ways.
Users can become part of the work itself and not only allow the artist to drive a message, but to further carry home in ways other works cannot. Very few pieces meet this objective and probably few ever will.
For a piece of Internet artwork to be considered art means it has to go beyond that which tangible work can go. There are limits to sculptures, painting, printed media, and various other forms of artwork that art on the net does not have. Since artwork on the net doesn’t technically exist, it has the ability to allow users to touch the work in other ways.
Users can become part of the work itself and not only allow the artist to drive a message, but to further carry home in ways other works cannot. Very few pieces meet this objective and probably few ever will.
3. Work and Peers
No, I personally have no constructed a piece of netart. My fellow peers have made their own attempts, and many of them did experiment with different fashions of execution of these criteria. However, a further ideal form of net artwork has not been produced by the class and may only come to light if the entire class actually functions as a whole.
Larger complex internet structures can be built by young digital architects in due time since it is just very hard to really put together something of real meaning alone.
Larger complex internet structures can be built by young digital architects in due time since it is just very hard to really put together something of real meaning alone.
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