Internet Art

Link to my site

Replay: Intermezzo

Intermezzo is a visual depiction of what images and feelings the piece Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana inspires in me.  It is a combination of my color sketch and line sketch, put together to add greater scope and depth to the work.

Sound pieces

1444 Minutes
By Jason Sloan
2/2/10-2/3/10
Materials: computer-based generative sound system programmed to follow a few parameters

This piece went live on the internet for a period of 24 hours in February 2010, with the audio emerging and fading based on a path created in the moment by a computer-based system with parameters of duration, pitch, and background color, which was based on the user’s computer’s time stamp.  An excerpt from the audio is given in the video documentation.

One Day on the Air

By Nicholas Clauss
2002
Materials: found audio from radio transmissions, radio diagrams, images of radios and backgrounds

This piece is interactive and allows you to move the radio around the screen as if you’re tuning it to different stations, since different tracks (French news, opera) are played depending on where you move your cursor.  The background will start to change as well, and more audio options appear.

Let Them Sing it for You
By Eric Bunger
2003
Materials: found songs

This piece allows the user to type in lyrics and press play to hear the resulting song. Each word or syllable is from a different song, which strings together multiple melodies and moods in a disjointed manner that’s fun to play with.

Musical Network
By Bill Fontana
2003
Materials: collected audio of bells, music, subways, cars, nature sounds (birds),video footage, and photographs of Lyon, France, and images of their subway system; played with Quicktime

This piece uses sounds from different aspects of life in Lyon, France, showing images and videos of different areas of Lyon (subways, buildings, natural scenery) and integrating these images with audio to illustrate pockets of life in Lyon, France.

Phrase Shifted Duet
By Tiernan Kuntzel
Dec. 1999
Materials: animated man and woman, found song; played on Adobe Shockwave

This piece features two buttons, which when clicked produces a person spinning in a circle on screen, whose place in the circle corresponds to the spot in the song. Clicking the other button starts another person going around the circle simultaneously, with the same song overlapping the original song.  You can also click on either button to stop that track.

Theme: Sound

Because of my background in music and my strong emotional responses to songs, I’m interested to find art pieces dealing with sound on the internet.  I want to see how it is presented in the context of the internet, and how that affects my experience of listening to it.  How is it different from going to Eastman Theater or listening to a CD?  I hope to come across both classical and contemporary music pieces used in the art and compare how and why they are used.  However, I’m not just looking at art dealing with music, but art that uses sound, synthesized or real, whether it be music or not, and how those sounds are reconstructed to convey the message of the piece.

Who am I?

The six links I added to my website are all in the top left of the site, dealing with movies, my minor, and religion.  I decided to add those since both have had great influence in my life and I hadn’t addressed them previously.  I also moved some links around.  I changed all my text links above Love, Labor, Learning, and Loyalty to rollover images for aesthetic purposes and so viewers have to find them, and tried to nestle images into parts of my body so that they looked more integrated into the background photo when they appeared.  The only exception is TAF, which blinks (in Firefox) over my heart, and I decided not to make it a rollover since TAF is pretty much the reason I care about my existence.  I changed my niece’s link to an autumn leaf since she was born in the fall and her Chinese name sounds like “autumn.”

Since I was told that it wasn’t clear that people should be clicking around the text, I used the image of a flower for each link, except for the forehead and face, since those are pretty big hotspots and harder to miss.  The flower I use blends into the background so it suits the picture.

Identity

Ethereal Self by Harm van den Dorpel
2008
Materials: webcam, Flash

Harm van den Dorpel is an internet artist from Amsterdam.  According to this site, he prefers to manipulate visual expectations and conventions to create new meanings and emotional responses.

This work uses your computer’s webcam and shows your image as if you are jaggedly reflected in the facets of the jewel.

Object Breast Cancer by Leonor and Abou Caraballo-Farman
3/2010
Materials: Medical panel with experts, mirrors, videos, animation, interviews, sculpture

Caraballo-Farman is an art team of two people (Leonor and Abou) who specialize in photography, installation, and video.  They explore the relationship between individuals and groups.

This multimedia project explores social and personal identity literally from the inside of one’s body, with medical imaging depicting images and vocabulary of breast cancer, using video, mirrors, and interviews, and a medical panel for an educational workshop.

Cathedral, Scene 4-Portrait and Landscape by Colin Gee
May 2009
Materials: Cathedral, self, videocamera

Colin Gee is an actor and is currently the artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum of Art.  He specializes in video, music, and dance.

This video is part of the Portrait and Landscape collection and shows a man making small and odd movements, seeming to explore and express his physical identity and presence in the cathedral space through his gestures.

Still life: Choosing and Arranging by John Baldessari
June 2001
Materials: Flash

John Baldessari is based in LA and works in texts, photography, and found images. He began his career as a painter, but turned to photography, film, and posters later.

This work shows constantly changing objects on the bottom shelf that you can move to the top shelf for storage, which reflects your preferences and is a portrait of objects you care to collect.

Anthroposts by Noah Pedrini
March 2010
Materials: audio from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, post-it images

Noah Pedrini is a digital artist in New York City who produces interactive, web-based works exploring visual depictions of social and public data.

This artwork displays 335 post-its that you can click on to enlarge, accompanied by audio, which stresses the individuality of each post-it note; the work allows the viewers to see a microcosm of people’s everyday lives.

Recycle

This image “recycles” logos of social networks on the web, and how these dating networks are effective in helping singles find love.