art ed + web 2.0 + [e]merging media blog

Katie: Cory Arcangel took nintendo supermarios game took off the characters, in presentation only plays clouds, revealing all the open code, humurous, answers to our generation. Performance in gallery deleting MySpace account. Doogie site, any search goes strait to Doogie Howser search. You tube changes the tube text into blue text. Possibly considers his art to be his myspace page, website or delicious network.

Another artist that Katie found is Kate Bingaman and her website is Obsessive Consumption.
obsessiveconsumption.com
She draws her credit card statement from every month. She is going to do this until all her debts are paid and she has a lot of debt. She sells the drawings to fund the payment of her credit card. Each day she draws something that she buys and postst he images on Flickr. The drawings bear a resemblance to Andy Warhol's drawings. She has every daily drawing that she has done and this February marked her 1 year anniversary. She recently had to re-draw all 365 drawings to install in a gallery show. She takes photos of her workspace and you can see her studio. She works at Mississippi state University and uses her workspace there in some of the images. Her website has links on it directly for her students to access her work and their class assignments. She takes the thing that makes her crazy and uses it as healing or gets money for it.

Luiz: Steve Danzig, Australian. Digital Artist used to be a psychiatrist, dream-like images, reminder of German Expressionism. In favorite work, Death 04, worked with Mythology. Images are faceless. Works on the computer and then makes prints. Art is meant to be seen in gallery not on computer screen. Works with photoshop and uses layers, thinks our lives are in layers as well.

Soh-Yoon: Martin Wattenberg, digital artist, researcher at IBM, Information based digital project, type a word and then builds an apartment/home as you type more phrases. You can look at other rooms that other people have created. Rooms contain words that relate to their function and are constantly floating around. His work is also posted through the Whitney at http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/idealine.shtml#

Jan: Ursula Endlicher, 2 or 3 pieces displayed on turbulance, first piece; html-butoh, dance style in Japan, people send in short clips of movements and then these movements are used as a symbol for different tags. Enjoyed interaction with other people, using a collaboration to create a work of art. 2nd work is Thread, how working with a computer has developed into a "craft". Website Wigs, how computers become an extension of yourselves, click on a wig and shows major categories and then expands to further strands on the wigs.

Shannon: Amy Alexander, net artist, professor at UC San Diego. Most recent project; SVEN, Surveillance Video Entertainment Network, everyday people and then matches people and their movements to music, videos are then displayed to the public from the outside of the van. Like Candid-Music-Videos. SVEN is about turning around the meaning of Surveillance into a positive thing. Ubergeek is other project, googles into the internet random phrases, then turns her findings into a work of art. While music is playing, does searches then places text on the screen in conjunction with the music. She also made a "scream" for the computer that a user can activate when the technology of a computer frustrates them. It is only available for a PC - interpret as you wish.

Sasha:
www.coverpop.com
Jim Baumgardner - collages that are made of individual images. The small images are clickable. In Flickr, you can see where the images came from initially. He has links to consumer items that are through amazon.com. The collages make up images and then you can directly click to the consumer site to purchase the item. Some topics include sudoku, women's sneakers, magazines & books. At the same time it is both beautiful and disgusting because of the consumerism that is behind the images. The works are updated on a regular basis.