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WordPress as a Paintbrush
Internet Art Then & Now
My Background & Perspective:
Art
- 2017: B.A. in Art History
- Contemporary Art Museums & Galleries
Products
- 2020: UX Design Bootcamp
- Independent Product Designer
- Net Art: Setting the Stage
- WordPress: Then ’til Now
- Future: What Now?
Net Art
Setting the Stage
Jurassic Park
VCRs and Cassette Tapes
President Bill Clinton
1993 – 2001
Cartoon Network
Oprah Interviews Michael Jackson
90s
Pulp Fiction
Metallica plays at the GRAMMYs
CDs
Gameboy
Internet History
Apple Macintosh II
Photo: Hellis at it.wikipedia
Word Wide Web
1991
First Internet Service PRovider
1994
HTML released to the Public
1992
1 million People Online
Getting People Online
1
Government
3
Corporations
2
Universitites
4
Public
Internet Art
Conceptual
Relating to or based on mental concepts
Digital
Electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data
Internet-centric
Global computer network for information and communication
Early Examples
JODI
Joan Heemskerk and
Dirk Paesmans
1995
"Code Poetry"
Demo:
“wwwwwwwww.JODI.org”
“When you work with computers, you have sound and you have image, but in the computer you also have code. And we tried to play with that a lot.”
- Joan Heemskerk (JODI)
Olia Lialina
1996
"Netfilm"
Pioneer, Organizer, Curator
Demo:
“My Boyfriend Came Back From the War”
"I was not very fond of this format back then. I would have preferred it to be a video, but animated GIF was the only way to get a moving image in the browser."
- Olia Lialina
Mark Amerika
1997
"Epic Novel"
Selected for 2000 Whitney Biennial
Demo:
“GRAMMATRON”
"What is kind of scary is the possibility of never reaching production closure because of the advent of all these software applications."
- Mark Amerika
Timeline
1996
New York Times goes online
1997
Forming a definition
Late 90s
- Net Art: Setting the Stage
- WordPress: Then ’til Now
- Future: What Now?
WordPress
Then 'til Now
# of Websites
WordPress
2003
What it is:
Open-source
Content Management System:
Theme, Plugins, Media, Database, “Core”
How it helps:
- easier to build websites
- easier to build companies
- easier to publish content
- easier to connect to people
Web History
Major Factors
- Smartphones & PCs
- Social media
- Blockchain
WordPress
Revolutionizing the Web
- Transparent
- Democratized
- No-code Options
'internet art'
Understanding a definition
- minimalism
- expressionism
- cubism
Newer examples of internet art
Shawné Michaelain Holloway
Power Structures
Identities
(Viewer Discretion Advised)
Website:
- Net Art: Setting the Stage
- WordPress: Then ’til Now
- Future: What Now?
Future:
What now?
What Now?
Net Art's Function
- Understand the Past
- Experiment with the Present
- Imagine the Future
2016
2022
“Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large.”
- Olia Lialina
GRAMMATRON REMIXED W/ CHATGPT
CMS: WordPress
Front-End: Elementor
Content: AI (ChatGPT)
Website:
"My focus is and has always been to look at the role that technē, technicity, plays...
To really investigate the prosthesis I am."
- Mark Amerika
Go forth and make art!
Thank You!
WordPress as a Paintbrush
Internet Art Then & Now