torek, 17. november 2009

An interactive Internet-based work

While reading some literature for my research paper I found one collaborative example of remix art (and if I remember correctly Jill showed us this example in one of ours first lectures as well).
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War is "a classic net.art piece, known particularly for its uncanny amount of response-pieces or net.art "remixes" by a lot of other artists over the network. The original piece, itself, features recursing HTML frames with linked photography - apparently some self-portraiture, and poetic hypertext phrases that link to a smaller segmentation of the HTML frames. Each click unfolds a new facet of the story. On the artist's site currently, there is a large list of links to some of the classic responding pieces."

Reference: Nimoy, Josh (2004): My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, Olia Lialina, 1996. Downloaded 17.11.2009 from http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/history/timeline/war.html

(From this link there is also a link to all the net pieces.)

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In 1997 Adriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis made a project called Deskop Theater. They 'invade' a a chat environment The Palace, so that everyone can take a part in "theatrical interventions of the construction of online identity" (Paul 2003: 122). Here is a link to a 'stage performance' of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot:
http://www.desktoptheater.org/~ajenik/desktoptheater_content/archive/plays/Godot/movies/godot_clip.mov

Reference: Paul, Christiane (2003): Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.