geographical schema, julie Mehretu

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http://www.whitecube.com/artists/mehretu

Elements of my digiscape will be inspired by Julie's geometric abtractions. I like the the density she creates with line and geometric shape. The remind me of maps with the contrast of color with black and white.

Question for Rachel Greene's A History of Internet art

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In the article it mentions that net.art  is art that is merged with everyday life (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_9_38/ai_65649375/pg_7?tag=artBody;col1). Our quick and easy lifestyles revolve around everything from food to electronics. How is the popularity of net.art connected to our cultural needs?

review on www.soundtoys.net

Soundtoys  http://www.soundtoys.net/ is a exhibition of audio visual artist developed by technology. It is a well organized, designed website for viewers to discover artist and for artist to contribute to each other. It provided news and resources contributing to netart. I find their journal to be strong attribute of the website. In the journal one can find essays and interview with digital media artist fast. Its clean appearance makes it a strong website to promote netart and the artist who create it.

My favorite is the interfaces of amorphoscapes http://www.soundtoys.net/toys/amorphorscapes. Its a exploration of texture and line structure.

questions 1-5

1.yes, anytime new media is used our perception of art is changed. Yet, it is similar to past art in its being of a entertainment structure as a art form.

2. I think the digital art work of earlier artist must be view separately. In comparing one to newer digital art, you have to recognize the first digital works as building blocks for the new.

3. It is art if someone finds it to be art. I believe it to be art. I don't know if there is any aesthetic criteria? The term netart doesn't bother me. Other art movements have had similar names, like Pop Art.

4. How do you think would be good ways to stimulate the user to dive into this new world of art?
If the users were able to be identified as a limb of the artwork, since their interaction is important for the art's existance.
What do you think represents an appropriate environment to present net based art to an audience?
I think the personal contact between a person and the computer screen is the most appropriate environment.
If you would be in the position to create an environment for presenting this type of art in physical space, how would you do it?
first thoughts is a inclosed box that viewers can travel through, connect the different netart works together.
5.As Internet based art, as well as other art forms using new technologies are (globally seen) still not widely accepted, yet, as serious art forms, what do you think could be an appropriate solution to change this situation?
The placing of netart in museums, or attention from media.

Question from Interview with Vuk Cosic

After reading the interview with Vuk Cosic, i found a article on Tate Intermedia art discussing how Net Art is critiqued as post-humanism. Can the growing population of netart in museums limit it's attack on inauthentic identities? If so, how can we connect its acceptance with other avant-grade art of the past, like expressionism.

"Conceptual art, so too is Net Art's supposed 'techno-formalist' variant undergoing heavy critique. In some ways, this critique is connected to a wider rejection of posthumanism and its insistence on the distinction between humans and machines, animals and humans and, perhaps most crucially, the physical and the non-physical."
http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15616.shtm