Spiritual Internet: Cathedral 3

Cathedral 3, Duncan Alexander (2010)

Short aside, finally saw Gerhart Richter's stained glass window in Cologne Cathedral. Happened to have a short change-over at Koln HBF and wanted to take a look. It was as awesome as I'd hoped.

Best Use of Mortal Kombat GIFs

Chariots of Mortal Kombat Fire (seecoy, 2007)



Nightwolf Beach Party Vacay (noisia, 2010)



Introducing Nightwolf Again (noisia, 2010)



Rockin' Back in MK3 (Scott Mathews, 2010)



Cyrax Falling (Jasper Elings, 2010)

New Age Default: Dump.fm Weekend

So I went to the dump.fm weekend opening last night at New Gallery London in Camberwell. The exhibition is one part of the short series New Age Default curated by Ben Vickers.

I was curious to see how the exhibition was going to be laid out, because how do you exhibit a live chat stream slash image dump? I guess Ryder saved everybody that problem with dump fullscreen, and it was pretty nice to see a bunch of random supersized gifs projected on the wall, though you do miss out on the multi-image combos. In addition, there were two computers signed in as NuGallery1 and NuGallery2 for in-gallery anonymous dumping, an image dumping webcam known as DumpBooth and a hotdog under a pillow (part of a series called Adding to the Internet by Justin Kemp)


(left: folks enjoying dump, right: DumpBooth)

It was kind of interesting dumping in a different environment. I usually have a hard time keeping my concentration up while dumping because it usually happens at night after having worked all day. When you consider how low your attention span needs to be* to keep up with the incessant chat and imagery - not to mention the fact that I'm sitting on a lumpy couch with a slow laptop burning my legs while I do this - you might not be able to keep your energy levels up for very long, so brighter lights, louder music, cold beer and a bunch of hipsters leaping in front of a webcam behind you can made for some exciting (anonymous) dumping.

* [EDIT] This sounds really derogatory, but I mean it in the most positive way. TV and the internet are always accused of lowering people's attention spans, but I think that's what makes everybody capable of taking in so much information at once. I'm just saying that I'm not fast enough for dump.


(left: dump by jeeeelings, right: dump by noisia)

It was good to see dump being exhibited. Mostly because it's only exhibit-able as an interactive piece (art gallery as internet cafe) and so doesn't lose what makes dump so amazing, but also because, for some reason, internet based work and new media just isn't that popular in London. It's been going gangbusters in New York, Toronto, and even Berlin, but doesn't have the audience here. I briefly chatted with Ben, and he's got a bunch of plans in the works to help change that, so I'll try and keep in the loop to support any future projects (and by support, I mean go to).

Oh god, yes!

From TheInternetArtist on Memegenerator, via loads of folks on the internet.

This one strikes a cord.

Hybrid Moments (2010)

Hybrid Moments by Eilis on Mouse Safari

Home videos of cats as paintings, a comparative visual essay.

Revisiting the "sub-amateur"

Tom Moody made a few comments after my post on the sub-amateur where he gets a bit more into the actual nitty gritty of what it means to introduce and apply a term like "sub-amateur" (and doing so across disciplines, which doesn't always work). The term is indeed somewhat unnecessary — especially with net art where the internet acts not only as inspiration, medium and platform, but also as distributor and equalizer — and, as Moody pointed out, it does confuse (or at least needlessly complicate) the simplification brought about by Duncan Alexander's text.

I have to admit, as someone who floats along the surface, I'm often misinterpreting and getting confused on the topic, which isn't helped by my tendency to re-appropriate ideas and terms in ways that work for me. "Sub-amateur" got me excited because that's where I saw myself - as somebody who isn't an artist and who doesn't want to be taken seriously, but has a bit of a background and just wants to explore, discover and maybe even create.

Basically, net art is my hobby, and I get the impression that this is true for a lot of people (though I'm sure nobody would snub a gallery or group exhibition invite), and though we are not "serious" (chilling for the sake of chilling), we do still engage, develop interesting ideas and, in turn, produce quite a lot of stuff. It could be therefore reasonable to be considered as a "category" (maybe a sub-category of the amateur?) within the net art "scene." Because, although the work might not be produced as "serious work," it is still worth looking at and at times even contemplating seriously. However, because it was never really intended to be a "work of art" per se, you will find a different, perhaps more casual (I'm tempted to say disinterested, but the term is too loaded to throw around so, erm, casually), approach to subject matter. What that different "attitude" or approach is, I have no idea, and maybe I'm needlessly picking at the fly shit, but that's only because I'm in no way qualified to get into it.

Surf Camp: An Amateur-ish Essay on the Sub-Amateur

There's been a bit of discussion taking place recently about the two camps of net art, where the "insider" and "outsider" sit within these camps, and how chill time plays a role within this construct.

Duncan Alexander's categories are (briefly):

Camp 1 which is more caught up in the art historical context. "The net is their vehicle for dissemination, and they stand out from the online flow. Rarely do these works link outside of themselves; if hypertext is involved, it is internal to the site."

Camp 2 which bases itself more within the "net historical" context. "What matters in camp two's work - or what is emphasized by the artists - is not so much the individual artwork as the artist's oeuvre and net presence."

So camp 1's work tends to be a bit tighter, and can stand on its own as art when presented "outside" of the net. Whereas camp 2's work thrives in the net context, and often loses meaning or relevance once removed from it's place of inception, which tends to usually be the surf club, tumblr or dump.fm (that's not to say these works won't be presented outside of their natural environment, though they'll usually be accompanied by a link back to let you "in" on the joke).

In the comments, Tom Moody likens Alexander's camp 2 to what others have termed as the "amateur and sub-amateur". The amateur is self taught, they create for the love of the craft or art and, motivated by this love, will develop their skills and technical know-how to better express their vision. The sub-amateur is also self taught, but to a point. They are more interested in the subject matter and therefore will often resort to (if not seek out)"defaults", or pre-determined settings found in the instrument or programme of choice.

Here is Gutherie Lonergan's handy table differentiating between the "Hacker" and "Default" approaches to net art to break up the text.



This all seems to suggest that the current string of net art all falls under the "amateur" tag, which I think is only because the "pro" group is still being groomed, if they aren't already emerging from the art school new media and computer art BFAs and MFAs that have been popping up over the last 5 or more years (my alma mater started a computer art course in 2006/7, before I even had a clue). In either case, we still have amateurs that are well entrenched in the art world, with many art school trained artists repeatedly popping up in gallery based animated gif exhibitions throughout the world. So, moving back to the beginning, the amateur is in no way the outsider when it comes to the artworld.

But what about the sub-amateur's relationship to the established artworld? What about those surfing dudes and dudettes that make shitty (not meant as a derogatory term) gifs and take part in the online chatter but don't exhibit, or plan to exhibit, beyond their own tumblr blogs? The actual "slackers of the art world"?

The jstchillin manifesto, to me, seems to imply the leisure aspect of net art. Both the amateur and sub-amateur take "chill time", but where one will draw from their chill time to produce work, the other chills for the sake of chilling. You could even go as far as saying that the sub-amateur are the ultimate decadents, consuming copious amounts of digital tat without giving any "thing" back beyond online in-jokes that are usually ugly and hard to look at; they are the virtual leisure class (this such a generalization and total contradiction, but I'm saying it anyway because it's dramatic and sounds cool).

The sub-amateur could be seen as the outsider for remaining outside of the gallery and focusing not on the product but on the act of chilling itself, and perhaps they are. As Moody put it:

[...] the term outsider sounds cruel and judgmental and snobby but all it means is "one who makes art heedless of a context larger than one's own computer (or studio, or computer/studio)."

But the sub-amateur is too self aware - of their activity as an aesthetic act and of their position in the history of (net) art - to be the outsider. In fact, the tendency to function as a collective also places them deep within an inside that is constructed by themselves: you had to have been there to understand why I put this seemingly random face on this other seemingly random body and captioned it with this bit of nonsensical text, but trust me it's terribly clever and funny as fuck.

The unique thing about chill time, though, is that, unlike most other leisure activities (I'm going to ignore the possible can of worms that is craft), there are plenty of byproducts and documentation that come out of it, which are the blog posts, collections, mash-ups, and even archived discussion. Even if the product isn't the point, it will still spread around the internet as people try to latch on to it by reblogging or further deconstructing the information to make something new. Authorship can definitely become an issue, and if you're that interested in the credit you can rest assured that infamy and an audience can still follow. Alternatively, you can also just sit back, chill and revel in the satisfaction of seeing something you didn't put that much effort into make the rounds across the net or, better yet, go viral.

Nasty Nets is Nasty

Spiritual Internet - Heaven

Heaven, Tabor Robak (2009)

(via ◕‿◕)

Spiritual Internet - Cyclic Universe

Cyclic Universe, Robert Lorayn (2009)

Krist Wood Follow

Tumblr being referred to on Spirit Surfers. WWJF?

Spiritual Internet - Opening the Chakras

Eilis McDonald, Opening the Chakras (2009)

Spirit Surfers - Tornado

http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=1031

How to do this, right.

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

Ha ha! I suck at Net Art!

Ps. The Tumblr got a mention on Rhizome! Wha?!

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

An attempt at a Net Art approach to an assignment.

1996

It's finally* been long enough since the 90s that they can be easily be identifiable by certain key features:

- Obnoxious homepages that are perpetually under construction with illegible text on busy tiled backgrounds, littered with counters and an inexplicably high number of "awards," and "hidden" Easter eggs.
- References to The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The X-Files, Pulp Fiction, Pam Anderson, etc.
- Excessive use of the word "Awesome."
- General excitement or optimism when it comes to the World Wide Web.
- Referring to the Internet as "the World Wide Web."
- Netscape

Jason's Awesome WWW Home Page!!!!

*This is the wrong choice of words, because I'm pretty sure these "features" were well known a few years back, but it sounds more dramatic and exciting than just "check out this crazy web page."

(Link via cory_arcangel's Delicious)

Vernacular Web 2

Olia Lialina's Vernacular Web 2 is a really nice look at how Web 2.0 has changed the relationship between amateur-and-web and professional-and-web, asking: "how does the Web look now, when it’s no longer seen as the technology of the future, when it’s intertwined with our daily lives and filled by people who are not excited by the mere fact of its existence?"

Although I'm disappointed with the brief acknowledgment of role of cats in today's web, I did really enjoy the extensive investigation of glitter graphics (there is a great page comparing dynamic GIFs with glitter-fied GIFs of the same subject matter).

A good read.

(via psflannery's delicious)

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 1)

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 1

From the intro:

Dragan Espenschied quote:

From: Gravity
"The pressure to be up to date with technology appears insane to me. It doesn't bring any more beauty or pleasure. Instead it creates things that are hard to understand and impossible to handle. So nobody can actually experience them beyond reading the artist's concept."

(quite rich considering that it comes from Rhizome) ([eta] I'm mocking Rhizome, not Dragan Espenschied)

Tom Moody Quote:

“Artists, too, have to compete with real world content far more captivating than anything they could come up with, which the Internet effectively gathers all in one place (sneezing Pandas, etc). Two possible responses are (1) to continually rise above it through aesthetic and conceptual framing and posturing or (2) to disappear into it and trust the viewer to ultimately sort out what's going on. The Web is a consumer's medium, not a producer's, so the artist is inexorably led to consumption as a "practice." The degree of criticality can only be inferred, not implied."

Non-art Sites:
http://www.4chan.org/
http://www.7chan.org/
http://b3ta.com
http://www.ytmnd.com/
http://idhddu.ytmnd.com/

Image Scrapers:
http://www.journalpics.net/pages/ljlatest/
http://www.nastynets.com/picsee/

Glitterfy:
http://blingee.com/
http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/12.htm

YouTube and Quicktime Samplers:
Petra Cortright - petra-cortrights-webcam-video
Paul Slocum - You're Not My Father
Oliver Laric - aircondition video; under the bridge
Javier Morales - guitar solo
Javier Morales - rgb chord
Aleksandra Domanovic - http://aleksandradomanovic.com/Kieslowski.html

Readings:
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/
http://www.ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.pdf


VVork - http://www.vvork.com/

The Archive of Simpleposie - http://www.jennifermcmackon.com/archive/index.blog?start=1183603970

Nasty Nets Archive - http://nastynets.com/?what=yes/

Chris Ashley - http://looksee.chrisashley.net/

20 Years Ago Today - http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/20y.html

Class 2

Collections:
http://www.cherylsourkes.com/index.htm
http://denver.cn/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marisaolson/sets/72157602681001997/
http://www.theageofmammals.com/groupshot/
http://guthguth.blogspot.com/2006/04/halt-robot_14.html
http://twitter.com/vvork/
http://nastynets.com/?p=424
http://nastynets.com/?p=580
http://www.artisforthepeople.com/19lamps.htm
http://www.loshadka.org:80/wp/?p=305

hackers vs. defaults

Hackers:
http://fffff.at/how-to-curate-yourself-into-the-new-museum/
http://404.jodi.org/
http://www.advancedpoetx.com/
http://www.donrelyea.com/algorithmic_art.htm
http://www.donrelyea.com/reductionizer_project.htm

Defaults:
Corporate blog software,
blogger
LiveJournal
WordPress
myspace etc.

Web Building Resources:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfptfv4s_108d28533nt
http://looksee.chrisashley.net/archives/603
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex6.html#12
http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html#general
http://www.html-reference.com/MARQUEE.htm

http://www.emotihost.com/ver1/pageindex.htm

Class 3

http://www.petracortright.com/

Using Marquees:
http://nastynets.com/?p=616
http://nastynets.com/?p=572
http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/100mmarquee.html
http://loshadka.org/billy/huge.html
http://nastynets.com/?p=542
http://nastynets.com/?p=603
http://nastynets.com/?p=1435

More HTML references:
http://www.html-reference.com/
http://www.tucows.com/preview/315334
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
http://www.krazydad.com/makecolors.php

Experimenting with placing images and/or text in remixes:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41322
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41297
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?40630
http://www.eyekhan.com/eyekhan/EYEKHANLABS-WEB.html
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39410
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39293
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?37206

On GIFs:
http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/08/05/img-mgmt-psychotronic-gifs/#comments

Using GIFs:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LMfoundGIFs/
http://oliverlaric.com/displacement.htm

http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/1.htm

YouTube Hacks:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2108/youtube_hack_automatically_start_loop_videos
http://nastynets.com/?p=923
http://nastynets.com/?p=412
http://www.brohans.com/2007/01/30/video-can-you-embed-two-youtube-videos-on-top-of-each-other-answer-yes
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2522/youtube_how_to_save_youtube_videos_pc_mpg_avi_format

Collections:
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=173
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=504#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=911
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=1307#comments
http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=1
http://nastynets.com/?p=470
http://nastynets.com/?p=566#comments

http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=53

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 2)

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 4

Collection Strategies:
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=173
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=504#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=911
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=1307#comments
http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=1
http://nastynets.com/?p=470
http://nastynets.com/?p=566#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=53
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?31122(space bloom)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/ovvlvverk/pageback/42653/

Search Methods and Aids:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
http://images.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
http://www.dogpile.com/

Creative Use of Tables:
http://looksee.chrisashley.net/archives/756
http://jpegmess.org/1.html

http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/
http://www.vertexlist.net/
http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/09/13/double-happiness-at-vertexlist/

GIFs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
http://www.blumentals.net/download/

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/animation-others/
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/comment/37805/

Addendum:
http://aleksandradomanovic.com/
http://oliverlaric.com/
http://oliverlaric.com/pixel/christophpriglinger.htm

Class 5

http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/blingee/

More Collections:
http://www.typingservice.org/index.html
http://www.unbehagen.com/fascinum/
http://oliverlaric.com/b.htm
http://www.vvork.com/?p=6535#comments
http://thankgodforconceptualart.com/index.php?/projects/me-and-my-girlfriend/
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=258
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=229
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=241
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=575
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=187
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=477
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=169
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=133
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=38

More Marquees:
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=427

YouTube Ripping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_6JvJTQoE
http://www.ripzor.com/youtuberipper.html
http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html

http://mikesdigitalpogpage.com/

Screen Captures and GIFs:
http://www.loshadka.org:80/wp/?p=630
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=148
http://nastynets.com/?p=1274
http://nastynets.com/?p=1236
http://www.newrafael.com/

Addendum:
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/117471.html
http://thankgodforconceptualart.com/index.php?/projects/me-and-my-girlfriend/
http://www.ireallyshould.com/captured.html

Class 6

http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comments

More Collections:
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=897
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=708
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=334
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?cat=59&paged=2
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=183
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=115
I WANT TO SEE ALL OF THE NEWS FROM TODAY
http://www.aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/portfolio/pdf/op110sentence2.html
http://www.photo.sittcomm.sk/kate_postcards.htm
http://www.nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics/index.html

Other Types of Collections:
http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html
http://www.whatihaveread.net/
http://www.tinypineapple.com/nursebooks/
http://www.davidshrigley.com/list_photographs.html
http://www.babyanimalz.com/
http://www.rapunzelsdelight.com/

Surf Clubs:
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/
http://www.supercentral.org/wordpress/
http://www.nastynets.com/?what=yes
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/
http://hardlandheartland.blogspot.com/
http://lordsofapathy.blogspot.com/

L.M. on Surf Clubs:

I find everyone's work to be more alive in the surf club, probably because even though a surf club is still a controlled context, it seems truer to the web than most pristinely designed individual artists' sites. I also noticed that surf clubs don't function that differently than the traditional artists' exhibiting collectives that we like so much here. Unmoderated by curators, and a variety of other gatekeepers and the artists end up driving it themselves, to mixed results, but when it's good, it's very good.

Marisa Olsen on Surf Clubs:
http://www.wordswithoutpictures.org/main.html?id=276

http://lolinator.com:80/

Class 7

Memes and Porn (and other disturbing things):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse
http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/mikidot/photo/evil_ducky_preview/index.html (more by Miklos Legrady)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?44921

Stereographic GIFs:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/uc/oransen/uc_stereo.htm
http://www.moillusions.com/2006/08/stereo-dino-optical-illusion.html

Rippling Water GIFs:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?45133

Lo-Fi Image Editing:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/comment/45086/

Addendum:
http://cprr.org/Museum/technical.html (stereo imagery)
http://dump.ordure.org/image::copy/ (free art)

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 3)

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 8

http://www.dyanmarie.com/

Using Paint Programmes:
http://gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/javiers/
http://www.mariaeisl.com/
http://aboutfoo.com/~robmyers/art/smileys/
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/ via http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?30568
http://www.onehundredpixels.com/
http://joe-biden.ytmnd.com/
http://www.petracortright.com/Landscape-5-15-05.html
http://www.travesssmalley.com/blog/
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?author=14&paged=2
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?author=8
http://happytimesforkids.com/pics1.htm
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=680

http://new-art.blogspot.com/2008/05/less-art.html
http://fffff.at/borna/

http://indoor-oak.org/

http://supercentral.org/lk/

http://candicebreitz.net/

http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/mikidot/photo/nobadart2008/pages/01.html

Collection:
http://www.nepaldog.com/NEPAL_DOG/908postcard.html#11

On Collections:
http://teamschwartz.powweb.com/Pile/c1p1.html

Animated GIFs:
http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2008/08/opening-tonight-young-curators-new.html
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2004/09/post_2.html
http://physics.ucsc.edu/groups/condensed/moseley/crystal_structures/index.html
http://www.rhizome.org/events/gifshow/
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?35618
http://www.boullet.com/black/pages/booksonline.htm
http://www.boullet.com/black/pages/growth.htm
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/115664.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/112585.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/108742.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/76019.html
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=857
http://theageofmammals.com/research/?p=23

http://www.clubinternet.org/

On Dithering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd-Steinberg_dithering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_diffusion
http://webstyleguide.com/graphics/dither.html
http://notlost.blogspot.com/2008/08/dithering-for-low-bit-depth-lcds-with.html

Class 9

Examples of Good (and bad) Reasons for Doing Things:
http://www.seecoy.com/matrYOshki.html
http://www.losamigosdelaimagen.com/EV021/EV021.html, http://www.stevenread.com/node/541
http://www.bordamedia.com/proun/
http://www.newrafael.com/
http://www.messhof.com/
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/

Class 10

More Animated GIFs:
http://www.roglok.net/?p=152,
http://jeffbaij.com/misc/31.html,
http://ominousmoo.com/clint/anim-gif/link.gif,
http://www.animated-teeth.com/
http://delicious.com/network/wizardishungry/animatedgif
http://www.maximumsorrow.com/layout/meditation.gif
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperrad.org/
http://woahlohan.ytmnd.com/

Joe McKay's list of what artists do with the web (abbreviated):

1. As a place where artists promote their “real world” work.
The site acts as a slide sheet and resume for self promotion. [in case you haven't noticed, this is most definitely NOT what this class is about, you don't take a printmaking course to print exhibition invitations, or an art history course to write up your own C/V]

2. The site acts like a more traditional "white space" gallery.
Harwood - Mongrel Tate, http://gallery9.walkerart.org/, http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html

3. Where the art starts offline but there is a web component that's important to reach the intended audience.
http://www.critical-art.net/ http://www.safetygearforsmallanimals.com/SGSA.html

4. where artist use the medium itself to mess with the ideas of what the internet should be.
http://www.exonemo.com/ http://www.jodi.org/. http://map.jodi.org/

5. where artists use social networking / web 2.0 tools and the culture of digital society itself as a medium for making art.
Tom moody, Double Happiness, Loshadka, nasty nets

6. People who never intended to make art, but it has "become" art over time, or some of us artists consider it art. [Joe is some of us]
All Your Base, Fensler Films

Recycle it article by Ed Halter

http://theageofmammals.com/lecture/ps.html lecture by Guthrie Lonergan

http://momoshowpalace.com/EMPM3.html
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/bison.htm

Flash Work:
http://www.coldvoid.com/
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/horse.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/pingpong.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/sleepwalker3.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/sleepwalker1.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/resurrections.htm
http://nathanhauenstein.com/cavevid-fs.html
http://www.newrafael.com/sites/cigarette/


Class 11

Scrolling Devices:
http://www.boullet.com/97.04/index.php?/screw/0900-0920/
http://weblog.bezembinder.nl/Frameset.htm
http://spac.altervista.org/ipod_clouds/
http://www.dotcomandshit.org/
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:CEO7AUKW8VcJ:art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_2/+scroll,+boling,+espenschied,+lialina+site:art.teleportacia.org
http://art.teleportacia.org/
http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/stellastar/poehali.html#onskazal
http://iamchriscollins.com/screensavior/sunrise.html
http://www.art-dept.com/artists/rankin/portfolio/specialprojects/eyescapes/portfolio.html?source=20i
http://www.onemilescroll.com/

http://www.teleportacia.org/war/

http://www.zachshipko.com/

http://www.theageofmammals.com/marathon/

http://www.iwanttobeamachine.com/

Class 12

http://meineigenheim.org/dumpster/

http://www.flickr.com/explore/panda

A few links from John Michael Boling posting on Rhizome:
http://ramsaystirling.com/Root/Work
http://youfellasleepwatchingadvd.com/

Links to Good Things:
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/index.html
http://www.epiclylaterd.com/contents.html
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/
http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/
http://www.livegif.ru/archive/dance/15_3.html
http://hippygifteconomy.blogspot.com/

A Feast of GIFs:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=60&threadid=2955

YouTube Colours:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex6.html

Class 14

Some Clever Uses for Marquees:
http://iamchriscollins.com/falsssssssssssssssssse/strt.html (source)
http://iamchriscollins.com/and/so/I/touched/the/hand/of/god/

And Some for Frames (and scrolling):
http://iamchriscollins.com/scrollytest/UntitledFrameset-6.html

http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/bongodrums.html

More Animated GIFs:
http://alaplantine.livejournal.com/?skip=20
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?35503
http://out-4-pizza.livejournal.com/
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-no-no-or-my-hair-is-getting-so-long.html
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/ballet1gif.html

Words of Wisdom:

Think about how you use your white-space (backgrounds).