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West Orlando WordPress Meetup | October 19th, 2023 | Virtual |
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Internet Art Then & Now
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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
Photo: Hellis at it.wikipedia
First Internet Service PRovider
HTML released to the Public
1 million People Online
Government
Corporations
Universitites
Public
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
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)
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
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
New York Times goes online
Forming a definition
Then 'til Now
Open-source
Content Management System:
Theme, Plugins, Media, Database, “Core”
Newer examples of internet art
Power Structures
Identities
(Viewer Discretion Advised)
Website:
What now?
“Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large.”
- Olia Lialina
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!
WordPress as a Paintbrush
Internet Art Then & Now