net.art – 1996-2003

Fields of Dream

2003

A participatory web project in collaboration with Nick Montfort for the Literary Games issue of Poems that Go, an online electronic art and writing venue.

Players can fill in word fields of someone else’s story or they can create a story with fields for someone else to fill in. Stories die out once ten more have been added.

vinylvideo.com

1999

vinylvideo.com is a website for the artist project Vinyl Video, in collaboration with Vinyl Video creator Gebhard Sengmüller. The website was shown at numerous festivals and exhibitions including the Temporary Autonomous Pavilion, an extension of Vuc Cosic’s  Net.art Per Me project at the Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2001. We pushed the conventions of HTML at the time using frames, horizontal scrolling and animated gifs that look like video static as background images.

Homework

1997

A web-based project that explores the net.artist’s relationship to an institutional structure through their web-enabled ability to perform fictional identities, networks and communities regardless of geographic or national boundaries. International artists such as Alexei Shulgin, jodi.org, Vuk Cosic, Heath Bunting and Keiko Suzuki completed Professor Bookchin’s final project assignment alongside UCSD art students in the Intro to Computing in the Arts class (I was the TA working directly with the students). The project is featured in Beyond Interface curated by Steve Dietz and hosted by the Walker Arts Center.

My *homework* responded to the option to “subvert an official interface” and was a fading remake of the homepage of the listserve group 7-11 based in Ljubliana, Slovenia.

[*]_crystalsite

1996

“A stacking and re-stacking polysemic matrix.” This early net.art project featured frames, blinking images, cool, crystaline colors, images of crystalline architecture, quotes, etc. On the landing page the site would reload itself into the center frame recursively until the new addition was so small it was no longer legible. The trace of the site on an outdated “web art taxonomy” webpage is what is currently left of it.