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GreenScreenRefrigerator Part I

First half of GreenScreenRefrigerator. A black Samsung Bottom Freezer Refrigerator was filmed live in front of an audience at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Oct...

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ART THOUGHTZ lecture follow up

here’s a video that we didn’t have time to watch in class when discussing Relational Aesthetics...

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The Fall 2015 Internet Studio projects are LIVE

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jlrobiso/indexF15.html

Such great work by an excellent group of students!

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Response to "Keeping it Online"

Article by Ben Fino-Radin

Fino-Radin presents a problem that I, too, have given a lot of thought to. How do we go about preserving internet art when factors beyond our control change the infrastructure? A series of screenshots would seem insufficient, especially for interactive and social media-based sites. However, I feel that we can't think about the preservation of internet art in the same way that we thinking about the preservation of earlier art forms such as painting and sculpture. Those can be stored and cleaned and physically exist always, though its arguable that they're documentation in photos is just the same as taking a screenshot (they're main impact is in real life). I think it's important that we think of websites less like paintings and more like Allan Kaprow's happenings. These events were works of art that were performative and repeatable, but occurred in different times and places so that it was almost impossible to document it all succinctly. The purpose of the art wasn't to be documented, but rather to be a part of it. I think that this is precisely what many websites are doing. Just because the web exists in a 2D, virtual/conceptual realm doesn't mean that it should be treated as 2D art. It's something more. It's something different. It's experiential. We must accept that we can never hope to capture an all encompassing document of that. 

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Blog Critique for NicoletteFain315

find her here!

I love the ideas and images that Nicolette shares on her blog. She thinks about the class readings in depth and that shows through in her genuine exploration of the ideas presented to her. For example, in her response to "My Chuck Close Problem," she eloquently uncovers why she disagrees with Blake in way that got my rethinking about my opinions on the case. I like that most of her responses go beyond the task of summarizing and take the ideas of the articles one step further where she relates them to larger themes in the class and in her own interests. For example, in her Life Feed response, she talks about how the camera becomes a therapy session because of the assumption that there's a private audience out there when we hit 'share.' That's brilliant! I want her to get more in depth about her own ideas not just the writers' so that we continue to see the ways that they've impacted her, some of which she's showing already.

In addition to the texts posts, I appreciate the images that she's added, which break up the blog nicely and provide windows into Nicolette's interests and inspirations. I'd like to see even more of that as well! After, pictures can often convey what words cannot!

Overall, it was a pleasure to look through her blog at length.