Select from one of the three topics :
1. WEB AS OBJECT
Build a site which uses outside links as an integral part of it's identity
and construction. Other sites and outside links should be built into the
very fabric of your site, conceptually and practically and should add
to, expand or actually create the meanings attached to your site.
In this project, you are emphasizing, rather than ignoring the large
context (THE WEB!) in which your work is placed.
examples:
Lisa Hutton,
Cyberbabes
Olia Lialina, Anna Karenin
Goes To Paradise
Heath Bunting, Own,
be owned or remain invisible
2. CONSTRUCT A FAUX DOCUMENTARY or APPROPRIATE AN OFFICIAL
INTERFACE TO CONVEY
SUBJECTIVE CONTENT
Official = Corporate, Military, Science, Government, Consumer Site (Shopping), Mass Media venue, Museum, School or other institution.
You must use the visual and verbal language of an institution to mock,
subvert, undermine, parody, or critique or otherwise
sabotage an aspect of dominant culture.
examples:
George Legrady, An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War
7-eleven
MAINTENANCE WEB
bureau of inverse technology
(BIT)
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Komar & Melamid:
The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web
etoy
The White House
(The real thing)
Jesus' home page
3. BUILD A SITE WHICH IS NEW-MEDIA SPECIFIC (SOMETHING THAT WOULDN'T
WORK AS WELL OR AT
ALL) IN ANOTHER MEDIA
This can be because of the form the work can take:
such as
1.Non-Linearity
2. giving the Illusion of Choice (addressing/ reflecting on "Interactivity"
3.Multiple Data Streams
4.Multi-Media
5. Formal elements specific to the web or the graphical user interface
(forms, windows, etc)
or because its addressing subject matter unique or specific to our high
tech times.
such as:
Alexei Shulgin,
Remedy for Information Disease
More Examples:
Numerous examples have and continue to be shown in class...