Blog Prompt: Havidol

Blog Prompt: Havidol

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Discuss your reaction to "Havidol" by artist Justine Cooper.

http://havidol.com

What do you think Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder is? What is the artist Justine Cooper critiquing? Why do you believe she has created such a convincingly real web site - and how does that impact her message?

Blog Prompt: The Carp and the Seagull

Blog Prompt: The Carp and the Seagull

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Discuss your reaction to "The Carp and the Seagull" by Evan Boehm. This site uses WebGL and will need to be viewed in Chrome:

http://www.greengoldenly.com/carpandseagull/video.html

 Why do you think the artist has created work that relies on the viewer in order to move the narrative forward? In what way is this same inclination reflected in his video installation, "Looking At a Horse"?

https://vimeo.com/75345839

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BLOG PROMPT: inbflat and thru-you

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Compare and Contrast:

http://www.inbflat.net by artist/composer Darren Solomon

http://thru-you.com by artist/musician Kutiman

Among other possible topics, think about ideas related to collaboration vs. appropriation.

Collaboration is when more than one person intentionally helps to create a work of art.

From A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, "Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images ... In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of (of the entire form) of human-made visual culture."

BLOG PROMPT: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War

BLOG PROMPT: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War

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After exploring the site "My Boyfriend Came Back from the War" made in 1996 by Olia Lialina, what do you think the piece is about? How does is challenge expectations about web design and linear narrative? Keep in mind this is a work for net art from the very early days of the web. Imagine how people might have felt seeing it at the time. Here is the URL:

http://www.teleportacia.org/war/