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the art of Blogging and the art of conversation.
May 9, 10:01 AM · Penelope Dunbar
Ippolito’s (2002) essay Ten Myths of Internet Art does a disservice to the simple immediacy of imagic material which the internet can convey.Many public collections and Art Museums now display a wide range of Art on their web pages including net.art (see“tate online”:http://www.tate.org.uk/ )This has created a vast visual resource where one can gain access to knowledge of contemporary art alongside traditional and historical art .I find much new media art counter intuitive unaesthetic and consequently impotent and unaffective. At best it is a curiousity at worst it feels like a Glitch or gimick.
However my experience of using the internet to source visual material has made me realise what a powerful and effective medium it can be for showing conventional art and new media art forms. The internet as a resource furnishes the fine art researcher
with avast amount of visual knowledge “Amazing rare things“ one of many e-collections. – extraordinary. And extremely convenient. I can scrutinize each image without having to bother with Gallery Etiquette. The quality of the image is really pretty good and you can zoom in close.To me this feels like really democratic art , accessible and of a good enough quality to really feel one is engaging with the image . The collection of fans
is an example of how the virtual experience can offer a degree of scrutiny never afforded the individual museum visitor.This is an important aspect of art on the internet. The internet becomes a medium, for translating visual knowledge.
Mark Catesby, Nightjar and Mole Cricket (1722-6)
There are now a vast range of online galleries whose remit is not to sell art but to disseminate the artifact.
Benjamin Potter
Afterlife 1997.
( bird wing suspended in honey)
8 × 8 cm
Other websites dedicate space to interactivite
art. Donna Leishman. has extensively researched contemporary interactive narrative structures. She identifies new media art as being a critical commentry on the fileds of communication and as a reaction against the commercialisation of HCI Computer Interaction)
Her comprehensive website 6amhoover is an informative relevant research document. I have particularly enjoyed reading her PhD thesis in such a fluid and lucid format.
I have used the blog to embedd my selection of images including my collage work in a space where I can critically reflect from a distance.
Pum 2007
kit for it, the life of things
Object arrangement
But also to enjoy the immense visual opportunities to instantly place work from different eras alongside one another, to create visual dialogues.
Graham Fagen,
my mouth shall speak of wisdom 2006
CMYK print
Hanna Hoch
Made for a Party 1936
Photomontage
Institut Fur Auslandsbeziehungen Collection, Stuttgart
Main Gallery, Ground Level
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Hannah Hoch
And shade
(1934)
New media ,its practices and multi-valiant metaphors
can be employed as useful tools processes to analyse my work and to critically reflect on my learning experience .
I have used the internet as a virtual location to send examples of my own visual practice and collage work.
Blogging
becomes a method , for externalization and public objectification as one enters a dialogue with unknown heterogeneous entities. Many artists make use of the potential the internet provides for feedback from such a diverse and populous audience .Professor VJ
sees blogging as performance and he may have a piont .
Pum 2007
Grinning performer
Collage .9 × 6cm
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great links Pum, thanks
— susan · May 9, 09:04 PM · #
Brilliant conclusion Pam, great links indeed. Good luck with the rest of your assignments :)
— Eugenia · May 9, 09:42 PM · #