harnessing one of the internet’s most infraordinary attributes – TIME – "internet nostalgia" uses the illusionary potential of animated GIFs and HTML/CSS to create a trompe l'oeil experience. this temporal-double-entendre reveals various nuance of how TIME functions in/on the web: from the larger chronological scale, to the more nuanced immediate- experiential scale.
Full Description
internet nostalgia is a media-archeological project that highlights how the internet functions as a time-based medium by framing it in a genealogical sense (e.g. in comparison to its formal-relatives: theater, film, video, television, etc).
today it seems we are caught in a temporal undertow, where time online moves at a different rate than AFK. internet nostalgia emphasizes this feeling of surfing upstream.
each slow loading image becomes an uncanny striptease revealing a Playboy(TM) centerfold from 1989 - a year when the internet existed but was not yet in use by the general public. through this experience, viewer’s are immediately positioned in an ambiguous past that might be familiar in some way/s. one might even imagine our experience might be akin to that of a 20th century computer programmer at CERN during an early test.
this project’s visual content uses “pornography” as a mile marker on the information superhighway.
similar to the communication-technologies before it,
one early use of the internet was for rendering and disseminating content that tapped into our carnal desires and sexual fantasies.
most “pornography” first accessible on the internet was merely remediated.
it was digital copies of the abundant imagery already existing in the world.
almost predictably, when the internet established itself as the new dominant media,
a tsumami of porn emerged and has since changed the fabric of that industry
- ranging from viewer-generated home brew, to super-slick HD production empires funded by entrepreneurs, to immersive + networked environments.
undoubtedly it’s also had a broader cultural impact, exposing new audiences/more people than ever before to the potpourri of pornography orbiting underground.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2015
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Jul 8th, 2015
- Original Url: http://www.ericfleischauer.com/InternetNostalgia/january.html
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Work Credits:
- ericfleischauer1, primary creator
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