Internet Art CH 1

The first artist I will bring up from this chapter is Heath Bunting (Britain). According to irational.org, a website he himself created, he is "co-founder of net.art and and sport-art movement, and is banned for life from entering the USA for his anti-genetic and border crossing work." He is also known to be the world's most famous computer artist. From what I have read about him he is an activist that shows his thoughts on borders in physical space and online.





http://irational.org/cgi-bin/cv2/temp.pl

The second artist I will discuss is Alexei Shulgin. Alexei is a Russian artist who started in photography, but soon made the change to internet art. He invented Form Art and aided in the findings and creations of other websites and internet art forms. Form art is almost like a game of clicking blank boxes on a screen and proceeding to the next "level" or find yourself at a "you lose" page. 

Internet Art Intro

The first person I will discuss is Nam June Paik. Nam is most known for being considered the founder of video art. As an artist Nam would take television sets and make music and sound flow with images on the screen or even mess with the electronic forces in a colour television. This absolutely amazing, who would have known that you could make art out of a television set, or a few television sets stacked on top of each other. He was also known for his making of robots from these television sets.

Another artist from this chapter is Cindy Sherman. I have learned of Cindy Sherman's series "Untitled Film Stills" before, and absolutely love the serious of photographs she has produced. Each photo looks as though it is a still from a film, you would never guess that it was just another photograph. The characters have such emotion, and the perspective always gets you right in on the action. She was a feminist, and shows this in a lot of her photographs, In her "Untitled Film Stills" she depicts how she sees women in today's society.

LYC CH4

The first quote I want to bring up from chapter four is that which appears in Sigmund Freud's memorial in Vienna, "The voice of reason is small, but very persistent." (27) I absolutely adore this quote because the truth that cradles it. Everyone has their own voice of reason, and it the voice that guides us through everything we do. This is the voice that helps us make our decisions and helps us rationalize our decisions after we make them. You cannot run away from this voice because it is a part of you. You can choose to ignore it, but are you really ignoring it?

The second quote I will shed light on is that of which George Orwell said, "Prime responsibility lay in being able to tell people what they did not what they wish to hear." (29) I choose this quote because it is our responsibility to others not to tell them fantasy, but to explain the truth behind their own actions. Just because your voice of reason tells you to tell one a lie about their own actions, do you do it? You may, but is that beneficial at all to the other individual? Not even slightly. Everyone else can see what they are doing, but people put up barriers to their own actions, and do not always believe what they do, but listen from others, It is our responsibility to tell these people their actions and help them improve on themselves,

Sammy and Sally's Lunatic Soup

Sammy and Sally's Lunatic Soup