91 Posts from March 2019

Kean University 2019, The Network

Net Art or Not Art: That is the Question

Marykate's Master Blog on March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

What is 'art'? What does it 'mean'? Isn't that the age old question?......This week we dived into the concept of Net Art right off the bat...so I decided to jump on it!According to Net Specific: What is Net Art?, it is an art form that "draws on data from other Internet materials and websites, which helps give them their distinctive dynamics and transience."When you google the definition of transience, you get: the state or fact of lasting only for a short time. I […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

“Do Something Different”

Marykate's Master Blog on March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

Part of this week’s work is to explore a variety of Net Art that might be of interest when producing a “Field Guide to Surviving the Darkness of the Internet”. One of the suggested sites to start with was “The One Million Masterpiece”, which caught my eye right away. What stood out at first, was the idea that this was a global project, capturing how people viewed the world from a variety of different eyes. As a teacher in a […]

Open Participants 2019, The Network

Conversations in the Margins: NetArt with NetNarr

dogtrax on March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

Networked Narratives held another of its regular Studio Visits earlier this week as the theme of the online course with an open invitation (allowing me and others to join in) shifts from the darkness of the web and technology to the light and the possible. Things are going from negative to positive. Here, Alex Saum is the guest, and she has been exploring the world of NetArt, or the leveraging of technology platforms to explore the notions of art. This […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

Why Wait for Your Sculpture One Week, When You Can Take a Picture Today?

karelnavyblue on March 21, 2019March 21, 2019

This week for class, we went over the topic of ‘digital art’ and how it has transformed art production. A discussion over this topic was started with an example of one of the forms of digital art we have today (digital photography), which originated from a more physical and simplistic form (sculptures, paintings, ect…). Looking at this example helped us clearly see the radical change that has taken place over the many years, on this art form of […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

Studio Visit

janetrmaison on March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

The studio visit with Alec Couros was an interesting discussion, because even though I have heard people talk about how their identitie have been stolen on line. I just don’t see it happening to me, because I feel that it happens to people that are famous and not an ordinary person like me. So I really don’t think about it. Alec said something that got my attention. he talked about how people used his picture to pretend to be him […]

Open Participants 2019, The Network

Presentation of Selfies in Everyday Internet Life

Karen Young on March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

It's taken me a while to write this post for multiple reasons, life (sick dog, vacation, etc.) and the topic itself. Part of the reason is I did not grow up in a world where a selfie was a thing so the urge to photograph myself is just not bred into me in the way it has been in younger people. A camera, rolls of film, processing the pictures, storing them was actually expensive and time consuming. Photos were not […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

Meme

janetrmaison on March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

I had no idea what memes where but after I saw couple of pictures on line, I said oh that’s it. I didn’t know how to make one but I do know. Still getting use to this memes.

Kean University 2019, The Network

How dose U.S. data collection affect me

janetrmaison on March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

I have been thinking about what kind of field guide project I would like to contribute too. it’s taken me a while to understand what to post and what not to post, or what’s expected from me. I feel like I’m over thinking what needs to be done. So this is what I found, I don’t know if it counts. Click here for article. I live in the United States. What kinds of records is the government collecting on me? […]

Announcements, Netnarr in 2019

From Memes to Net Art: #NetNarr Week 8

Alan Levine on March 19, 2019April 15, 2019

Last week we looked at memes – their use and the potential they present for digital alchemy. But can we consider them a kind of art?

This week we will look more deeply at the notion of digital art. And we will consider the way open digital networks might add something extra to the production of digital art.

Open Participants 2019, The Network

Our Real Selves/Our Fake Selves/ Our Shadow Selves

dogtrax on March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

The mic hears everything flickr photo by kreg.steppe shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license “We’re looking at the relationship between fake and real.” — NPR Host Alix Spiegel The National Public Radio’s Invisibilia program turned its focus on the idea of our Invisible Selves, the way our online social media-infused identities are often in conflict with our offline identities. This radio program — Point, Shoot — is long, as a deep dive into an important issue, but it is […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

A Meme in the darkness- Week 7

Leighann Soto on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019

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Kean University 2019, The Network

we love stories in this house

masooch94 on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

Hello friends! For those who had spring break, hope you had a good one. I’m certainly still in vacation mode, so I’m gonna try my best here. We had a lovely conversation last week about memes and I’m pretty sure that’s the most lengthy and coherent commentary I’ve voluntarily given in a class in years. Character development or bout of confidence fueled by thoughts of the impending spring break and caffeine? My money’s on the latter. We also made memes […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

But What Does it All Really Meme????

helterskelliter on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

Well, well, well… If I’m not back at it again discussing memes. Have I ever left the conversation??? My Make Making Meme-ing Okay I’ll stop So, you may have guessed it already, but this week’s class topic was memes. We spent most of class discussing what memes are, what memes can be, what memes we interact with (if we do interact with them at all), and how memes can be used online. I spent most of class trying not to open my big mouth on the subject […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

field guide attempt 0.3

masooch94 on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

Ah yes, the biggest meme trend that I have vehemently subscribed to. Self-deprecation and destruction. Which is why I nearly cackled out loud when I saw Why millennials are making memes about wanting to die in the list of additional meme info sources on the meme page in NetNarr’s Book of Stuff. Reading through it, the first thing that caught my eye was Dadaism. So, firstly, shout out to Kelli. Please see her and her posts for more intelligent commentary and […]

Kean University 2019, The Network

Meme Story

ambitiousisshe on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

http://somni.arganee.world/2019/117/ https://imgflip.com/i/2w94vl https://imgflip.com/i/2w955m https://imgflip.com/i/2w95a4 #NETNARR