Project Critique

The group project that interest me the most was the Wizard of the Oz project. I like how it gave a different portray of these characters like the page that told the story from the witch's point of view and added present day activities to the character's lifestyles. For example, like the Dorthy page where she is getting ready to go to the club and the Tin Man page where he present his information as if he was on a dating site and then show him dancing at a night club. I believe that the inspiration for this project came from http://www.superbad.com in the way that it gives the user a way to interact with the site and as much as they like. But unlike superbad this was more unify where in superbad every page was completely different from the other and didn't share a common idea. The Tin Man page look to be inspire some byB00GIE-W00GIE W0NDERLAND in the way the information is presented to the viewer as soon as you click on the page.

Shredder 1.0

"Shredder 1.0 interface was first created in 1998. The Shredder 1.0 web interface was created to be both an interactive as well as an artwork generator. To create an image the user inserts a url into the shredder 1.0 and the code is then reinterpreted by a Perl Script code created by Mark Napier." For me this is a good example of web art because it is taking a site's url and turning it into art proving anything can become a work of art. Also, because the results changes with each url no two pieces created are exactly the same. In the future I can see different or newer versions of shredder 1.0 take not only the url but also picture's, multiple url's, and shredding to create new pieces of art. Unfortunately I couldn't upload an image of the art work I created on shredder but if you go to http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/shredder.html and type a url into where it says location and hit enter you can create your own piece of digital art.

Superbad

"This site consists of a veritable maze of inter-linked visuals conceptual "subprojects" ranging from two-tone and technical-looking to wacky, colorful, and even bizarre. Often a subject will have click able elements linked to other pages within that subproject, or to another, or that just provide visual richness. For example. the "follow subproject has a grid of circles with arrows that follow the mouse cursor; each is a link to a different page within the site". This site for me boarder on the infinite/endless; as I went through the site I felt like Alice in Wonderland just going deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole. Every time I finish viewing one page I would click and find myself in another web page that material was completely different from the previous page. I like how on each page depending on where you click you were sent to a different page which gives the viewer an almost infinite amount of possibilities

The Hiroshima Project

"Inspire by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. I see this as an example of web art because art can be use to tell a story and/or deliver a message and for me the Hiroshima Archive does that." As I went through the archive and saw before and after pictures of the city and photos of people who either die or was directly affected by the bombing it reminded me of the victims of 9/11 and how normal that day was to them until the attack. Galleries like the Hiroshima Archive message is to never forget what took place and make efforts to prevent something like that from happening ever again.

A Visitors Guide to London

The one I choose is the Visitors Guide to London. When you enter the website you are taken to different areas throughout London mostly with the help of a compass on the lower right side on some of the pages. the photos of the city where altered in photoshop to give them an eerie black and white image making the viewer view these landmark or images of the city in a new way. For me this a good example of web art because it is taken the concept like google maps and other Internet services that allowed you to view cities and town and putting a twist to it, having images of an area seen in a unique way.

The Screening Circle

Screening Circle adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle into an online format. Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motion graphics will be on view instantaneously. The Screening Circle is a good example of web art because it took an old tradition and art form and brought it to the digital age. Before only people who knew how to sew could be apart of a quilting circle and usually with close friends but now anyone can from famous artist to people who just stumble on the website.