lillians02 on This week for my fieldguide review, I decided to look at the art of Charles Csuri. We spoke about him in class, and I thought his idea of morphing images (overlaying and blending of visuals) was interesting. Csuri did this to form new images. In class, we reviewed his piece called "The Hummingbird." As I … Continue reading Color Your Way Through the Darkness {Fieldguide} →
Hello~ This week, we’ve begun to explore the emerging and fascinating world of Net Art. In order to help familiarize us with more of the purview of this field, we were asked to explore the works of different artists and collectives. (Heck yeah!) I chose to explore the net art works of three very different people(?). Each work drew me to it for varied reasons. Mostly, I’m interested in how online spaces intersect with practices of identity construction so I […]
This particular Field Guide post is going to be very brief (and quick on my part) since I’ll be mentioning a website that I found for another project in another class. In short, I had to conduct a digital detox project, basically staying away from the internet for 24 hours, and write about how it went. For the write-up, I searched for a source to use as a reference point, and I stumbled upon an article called 9 Positive Benefits […]
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 […]
janetrmaison on 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? […]
masooch94 on 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 […]
This too shall pass~ Or will it???? Hey~ So, in the course of working on my thesis, I’ve read a lot of articles and research studies about memes. Some articles focus on the spread and replication of memes through a system while others focus on the sociocultural impact of the meme and its semantic and communicative applications. Very boring stuff. Not the topic–the writing on the topic. It’s almost like mimetic researchers have something to prove… Anyway, rather than bore you with some of those […]
As promised, this post is going to cover the subject of ads and the ad-block application. I’m certain that every person who roams around the internet is fully aware of what online ads are; pop-up ads, display ads, video ads… etc. Users get bombarded by these ads all the time. They cause immense slowdown, unnecessary distractions, or even secretly contain malware that could harm your computer. Some people, though, may not be too familiar with the ad-block application. What is […]
lillians02 on The picture below represents my face while I reading this week's fieldguide article. I picked this article because I was drawn to the title. "Why Millennials are Making Memes About Wanting to Die" by Deidre Olsen. I was shocked and hurt because I had no idea millennials were doing that. I am a millennial myself, … Continue reading Say What? Nah, Olsen Got it All Wrong {Fieldguide} →
Article URL link: http://elit.umwblogs.org/2012/03/14/the-negative-side-of-memes/ The article of The Negative Side Of Memes, by Kevin on Electronic Literature, talks on memes on the internet and how the are regarded as a form on digital literature (in this case, one that is negative). It argues that these are quite popular online because of how argumentative and provocative they can be, especially the memes that are based on racism and sexism. This alone is an important reason for its negative contribution to […]
Since we’ve discussed selfies and Instagram last week, I thought it’d be interesting to look at the concept of influencers online for our Field Guide. If you’re unaware of what that is, a simple description would be a social media user who gets paid to promote products on that platform. I’m going to be frank here and say… this is possibly one of the most absurd occupations out there. Think about it— Someone is getting paid to post stuff online. […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/style/how-the-selfie-conquered-the-world.htmlI chose this article from the ny times on selfies for the field guide report. I chose this article because it literally breaks down how selfies conquered the world.
masooch94 on So last week, we talked about selfies. Had a whole debate about selfie culture and validation and narcissism yadda yadda yadda crazy millennials blah. So for this week’s field guide post, I went searching for some modern takes (as in, like, last week or something) on selfie culture. Something aside from the “all millennials are narcissistic” narrative. Didn’t find exactly what I wanted, but I’m pretty sure I found something better. My search brought me to this video, “Selfies, Millennials, […]
Me: What do I think of selfies? Idk ...I have a whole album of them on my phone! When I make a silly face...have a good hair day...Znelxngr: You're so into yourself! Me: Shut up Z!Z: It's true! You love looking at yourself in your phone. Idk...the whole selfie phenomenon is absurd.Me: Who cares? It's not like it hurts you to see a selfie?Z: It's the whole idea of them! This image conscious and self-obsessed culture we live in drives me […]
