Final Blog Entry

I really got a lot out of this class. I was excited from the beginning that I was going to learn more about technology and the internet because it is such a vast and evolving phenomenon. I enjoyed the exploration of apps and how we often utilized the internet to create physical art pieces. Overall, I learned a lot this semester and I am very proud of all of the projects that I completed.

EXTRA CREDIT EFFORTS:
(If yes - provide the URL to the entry and/or EMAIL me documentation)
1. LinkedIn Recommendations? Yes/No.
2. Swede Film Festival submission? Yes/No.
3. RunKeeper GPS art? Yes/No.
- http://haleighpurvis.blogspot.com/2014/05/runkeeper.html
4. Course Survey completed? Yes/No.
-Emailed
5. Digital Art: Chapters Intro-3? Yes/No.
-http://haleighpurvis.blogspot.com/2014/05/digital-art.html

Digital Art

Read from Digital Art: Chapters Intro-3. In your blogs, research two relevant figures/artists/artworks referenced from each chapter and share your findings. Do NOT copy and paste from Wikipedia. Demonstrate your research, processing, and responses to their roles/contributions/artworks. Images/Source URLs/multi-media posts encouraged.

Intro

Douglas Davis orchestrated a performance via satellite telecast to over 25 countries. He took part in one of the first international satellite telecasts with his live performance The Last Nine Minutes. Along with himself, Nam June Paik a couple other artists preformed. I think that this was the beginning of the digital age because Davis wanted his art to reach as many people as possible at once. He was one of the first to utilize satellite telecasting in an art performance piece. 

Keith Sonnier's Send/Review Satellite Network was the first artistic project to connect groups of artists via public satellites. There are two parts to the project: Part 1 studies the politics of using satellite networks for two-way communication for the public instead of controlled by large industries and mass media. Part 2 takes a live, interactive, satellite feed that stretches between NYC and San Francisco and lasted about 15 hours total. The point of this project was to express concerns about peoples right to access satellites. 




Chapter 1





Chapter 2





Chapter 3

Runkeeper

Get the hang of it and make your own more impressive GPS masterpiece before the end of class for extra credit! Screenshot your phone to showcase your work and the details such as date/distance/time, etc on your blog! 

Tilt your head left, and Its a golf flag on the green. 

Internet Art: Chapter 4

Jonah Bruker-Cohen's "PoliceState" was very intriguing to me. The remote controlled cars were linked to a police scanner that once it detected certain terrorist related signals it would control the cars movement. The idea was to make the "police become puppets of their own surveillance." It highlights the bigger question of who has power over information and who should. I find this experiment/art instillation to be very relevant and creative in it's attempts to  express the artist's feelings about the idea of "Big Brother."

Yucef Merhi was the most inspirational artist in this chapter. He hacked the Venezuelan presidents email for years then created a wallpaper-like instillation using the messages. He did this to show that Venezuela is weak in its cyber defense by showing that even an artist can hack into the government databases. I thought that this was a bold move and it sent a strong message to the Venezuelan government.

Internet Art: Chapter 2 & 3

The Barbie Liberation Organization was a publicity stunt in which the voice boxes were switched between nearly 300 Barbie and GI Joe dolls. This caused an uproar in the media, which was the very intention of the BLO. Mothers should have thought of this as a movement and a message instead of a prank to confuse their kids. The main point that the BLO was trying to make was that toys encourage negative behavior in children by exposing them to violence and sexism that Barbie and GI Joe represent.

Personally, I thought this was hilarious. As a babysitter I have seen the negative effects that certain toys and games have on children. It is sad that the innocence of a child can be overlooked as ignorance. Just because they may not fully understand the idea of sexism and gender rolls, little boys still have a habit of making fun of kids that play with toys like Barbie and therefore will grow to see women as less superior. I thought that even though parents were upset about the who dilemma, that there was no real harm done. If anything, the kids had a good laugh about it and probably looked at Barbie a little differently ever since.

Valie Export was an icon for feminist reform in the late 60's.The idea of letting strangers grab my boobs does not instantly strike me as art. After reading this chapter I began to understand the reasoning behind such a bizarre attempt at a statement art piece.  She used her body as the focus of the piece which showed her radical feminist strength.  She called Touch Cinema "the first genuine women's film." Her bravery and shocking approach caused the public to really think about the power of the human body and how women should contain the will to express their bodies without fear or meditation.