Art 451: Assignments
Identity Remix
The web is an arena in which people’s identities can be presented as altered, exaggerated or completely falsified. This makes it an interesting place for artists, and others, to explore issues of identity. In this assignment you will create a website that functions to either slightly skew, or entirely remake, your identity. You may chose how closely the new identity fits with your current sense of self. Consider using artwork, images, etc from your existing identity which could believably be “remixed” into a new identity by adding text that you would not use to describe yourself. Or the reverse: Your own actual biography presented in a highly unusual way (see Rent-a-Negro art project). Please be aware of copyrights issues, see the copyright issues links on the class links page.
- Pop! The First Human Male Pregnancy – by Lee Mingwei
- Mouchette – annonymous. Read about this classic net.art project in the New Media Art book. It could be considered the non-commercial precursor to the Lonelygirl15 concept, which you can read about here on Wikipedia.
- Bodies© INCorporated – by Victoria Vesna and Robert Nideffer
- _readme.html by Heath Bunting
- Female Extension – by Cornelia Solfrank, including her net.art generator
- All My Life For Sale – by John Freyer
- Rent-a-Negro by artist Damali Ayo – An uncomfortable exploration into the value of her “services” as a token person of color.
- Pretendster
- Lifesharing by 0100101110101101.org
- The Essential Guide to becoming Michael Mandiberg by Michael Mandiberg
- Fake Yoko Ono
via Art 451: Assignments.