2 - Net Art and its Prehistories in Code Art

Since discovering net art and post digital art earlier in the course, I have always been inspired by it. My assignments led me to research artist such as Olia Lialina and Cory Archangel and their work have inspired some of my assignments.
Net Art is the practice of using the internet and its material to create some form of art. Some artists use coding to create something abstract and others use it asthetically.

In reference to code art, an artist named Jon Satrom is some one that immediately comes to mind. A lot of his work centers around coding and glitch art.


Satromizer OS

http://satromizer.com/sOS/
This project was a collaboration between Ben Syverson and Jon Satrom. Together, they created an app to intentionally corrupt JPEG files and a programto corrupt directories of data. This is a very typical example of code art and it facinates me to know that broken code can still be used somewhat functionally. This concept is very simalar to that of web arts. The idea of taking and manipulating code to create something unique has been around since before the internet.



My Boyfriend Came Back From The War

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/nov/10/my-boyfriend-came-back-from-the-war/
This is a brower based visual novel created by Olia Lialana. It is a interactive hypertext narrative still viewable in most browers today. However, it was exhibited using Netscape, an old browser reflecting the time in which this artwork was created. This piece shows how a narrative can still be used in a genre thats often seen as abstract. "Lialina told Bosma that her approach to My Boyfriend Came Back from the War reflected her interest in applying a cinematic language to the net".  (Rhizome. 2016).


e.m-bed.de/d/

http://e.m-bed.de/d/

This is an example had previously looked at but i believe this falls into the Net Art catagory. He created a music video and whilst it plays, the browser shows its rise in populatiry wth new comments appearing, new windows opening to show it being retweeted, etc. It cleverly simulates a glitch asthetic and manipulates browers to do unorthodox things to add dimention to the piece. This is a modern representation of the genre, showing how social media is used to gain awareness of a web artefact.

All of these have simalarities but i enjoy them for their differences. They are all part of the genre but each of them uses it in a different way. Olia uses a regular web browser to view her work but Yung Jake just uses a web page asthetically and this way he can manipulate it for his work. Jon Satrom created a piece that was an app that he participated in coding, but the video itself displaying the work is the main piece. This is easily accessable through Vimeo in a conventional manner like what Olia did. 

EXPERIMENT

Once i thought about code art, i thought about a very simplistic thing that used to be done called text art. It would be an image created using only text. The same can be done with code, it just uses this to create the image using ASCII characters. This is my logo generated into text art using https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/.

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Bibliography


Rhizome. 2016. Speaking in Net Language: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. [ONLINE] Available at: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/nov/10/my-boyfriend-came-back-from-the-war/. [Accessed 5 January 2019].

Yung Jake. 2012. E.m-bed.de/d. [ONLINE] Available at: http://e.m-bed.de/d/. [Accessed 5 January 2019].

Ben Syverson, Jon Satrom. 2019. Satromizer OS. [ONLINE] Available at: http://satromizer.com/sOS/. [Accessed 5 January 2019].








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