Steve Durie
Art74 – Introduction to Digital Media info site — Fall 12– Instructor: Steve Durie
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READING # 3
Please Check out the artist from the NMA book on this website: Read:
Natlie Bookchin — the Intruder — http://bookchin.net/projects/intruder.html
Shu Lea Cheang — Brandon — http://brandon.guggenheim.org/
Etoy — Toywar — http://www.etoy.com http://www.etoy.com/projects/toywar/
Olia Lialina — My boyfriend came back from the war — http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war.html
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy — Horror Chase — http://mccoyspace.com/video/Horror_Chase-Line_Feed.mp4 Every Shot Every Episode — http://mccoyspace.com/video/Every_Shot-Every_Episode-1.mov
Mouchette Mouchette.org — http://mouchette.org/
ArtMark — Artmark — http://www.rtmark.com/
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries — Bust down the door again —
Questions for Reading 4 — Narrative vs. Non – Narrative and Identity
Q1. Look up the defination of Linear Medium ( wikipedia) and Summerize a good defination between what Linear and Narrative froms of information vs. Non-LInear Non-Narrative.
Q2 Look up the defination of Hypertext ( wikipedia) and choose the best 2 art projects from the artists above that best exmplfiy that concept. Give reasons.
Q3 From these same examples please describe 2 examples that use the more conventional linear sense of narrative and 2 examples that still create narrative, even if its not linear. Lastly name 2 more where the material is interested in the nature of narrative vs. non-narrative based infomation. Give reasons.
Q4. Which examples seem to rely on the idea that content producers of digital media can create and/or control their identity. Give reasons.
Q5. Discuss as a group what are some of the common themes, subjects, activities and cliches that you think are the best stories unique to the Internet.