Lucia Le
Emotions and Interactivity
Can our most complex emotions be expressed well via new media metaphors? This is a question that Barcelona-based artist Aureliano P
Information Prose
Two times every week, the serial web narrative \"Imaginary Year\" is updated. The site represents what creator Jeremy Bushnell calls \"the media ecology\" of contemporary Chicago and its citizens. The project reads somewhat like a traditional storybook blended with random data files, complete with faux, stylized, caricature-like mugshots of characters and snippets of movie-script dialogue married with email-ish ramblings...to result in a style of literary entertainment that Bushnell calls \"information prose.\"
Net Art and Memory Themes
What is it about net art that makes it so conducive a medium for artists to explore issues of memory? Marcy Palmer\'s \"dis-house-jointed\" is another example of such a work of net art. The site deals with the themes of remembrance and location -- in what the artists describes as a very American sense (by incorporating distinctively American landscapes and interiors and other cultural references.) Palmer presents unusual juxtapositions of images and sounds and text which may or may not jog the user\'s memory. What will be conjured in your brain once you log on? Well, maybe a new memory will form from your experience logging on to this site. Palmer received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in May of 2001. Her exhibition record includes 'Net\_Working
What (stereo)type of person are you?
What \"type\" of person are you? Do you fall into a neat category? Or are you as unique as you believe you are? Checking out Milan-based artist and designer Nikola Tosic's \"Personality Stereotype\" might help you figure this out. While at first this net art work might seem to be a simple means of collecting random data, the site takes on more meaning when you really think about it. Is it possible to distill your character down to only a few words and phrases? And isn't it a little TOO easy to simply create a new identity for yourself which no one may question, once your new characteristics are in writing? Where does all of our personal information go, anyway
Morse Code meets software code
Irish net artist Garrett Phelan has created \"friendlyghosts\" -- which serves as what he calls a \"text translator.\" Texts are loaded into a Flash Movie and are then transformed into fresh images and sounds. Each image is a pencil drawing associated with a letter, number or punctuation mark. The images are all accompanied by corresponding sounds. Is there a system involved? Phelan has actually used the once \"cutting edge,\" now-antiquated Morse code as a reference point.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Keep Your Phones On
So maybe you didn\'t make it to Ars Electronica last September and you missed out on the hot ticket...Golan Levin\'s \"Dialtones (A Telesymphony).\" This piece is a full on concert featuring the rings of cell phones. Think of it: an auditorium full of people encouraged to keep their mobiles on for the entire performance! Now you can check out what it\'s all about online. Learn about how the whole thing was orchestrated, from the registration of phones, to seating arrangements, to the more philosophical reasons behind this elaborate performance.
\"Browser Gestures\"
What is a browser, really? A site by LA digital artist Mark Daggett entitled \"Browser Gestures\" attempts to look at browsers in a new light. Daggett\'s applications reinterpret how browsers usually present and maneuver through information. Sometimes, the browser sends a requested site through a feedback loop. At other times, the browser adapts and reconfigures itself according to previous pages opened dating back to when the browser was first used.
