Read:
Works:
- Grammatron, Mark Amerika (view High Bandwidth version)
- My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, Olia Lialina
- World of Awe, by Yael Kanarek, 2000.
About Works:
- An Introduction to Net Art, (1994-1999) by Natalie Bookchin & Alexei Shulgin
- About Grammatron
- About My Boyfriend Came Back from the War
- About World of Awe
Blog: Explore the above three works of hypertext fiction, along with the writing about the works. The expressive hypertext works presented on the web in the late 90s were often within the context of “net art.” Net Art was a loosely defined online community of artists, writers and coders who embraced low bandwidth connections speeds, the accessibility of HTML and JavaScript to create interactive multimedia works, the frontier freedoms of expression and copyright in the early web, and the intimacy of connecting to a readership/viewership without intermediary publishers.
Choose one of the works to read/explore in-depth and write a post reflecting on themes explored so far: multilinearity, variability, combinatory poetics, intertextuality, reflexivity, navigation structures, the relations or tensions between image, sound, text. How do these online works differ from the earlier published hypertext fiction?
IN-CLASS TOPICS:
Discuss works
Talk: Net Art
“IF SOMETHING IS IN THE NET, IT SHOULD SPEAK IN NET.LANGUAGE.”
– OLIA LIALINA, 1997
- The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, by Douglas Davis, 1994
- Jodi.org, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, mid-1990
- Form Art, Alexei Shulgin, 1997
- superbad.com, Ben Benjamin, 2000
- Screenfull, Abe Linkoln (Rick Silva) and Jimpunk
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, Olia Lialina
- Mi pololo volvió de Antuco. Después de comer nos abandonó.
- My boyfriend live-tweeted the war. After dinner they left us alone.
- myboyfriendcamebackfromthewar.blogspot.com/
- The Last Real Net Art Museum
- work archive
Grammatron, Mark Amerika
World of Awe, by Yael Kanarek, 2000.
Epithelia, Mariela Yeregui, 1999.
System of Interrelated Styles, by M. Kitchell
-computer as semantic machine
-input and output of alphanumeric symbols
-internet as consciousness/unconsciousness
– what is our internet now? is it broken?
IN-CLASS EXERCISE:
Hypermedia/net art exercises
- Smallvictori.es/
- get dropbox account
- review basics, then advanced
- use blank theme to start : example
- class as net art collective: decide theme based on Bookchin & Shulgin outline
- find/collect/make text, images, gifs, video, images, screen grabs and add to folder
ELD Entries research