New Media Art - Blog

My ideas for the flash project are to create a cartoony doomsday theme with an interactive TNT bomb which allows the viewer to click on it and set off a nuclear missile. Once the missile has been launched bombs will fall out of the sky until the the world is almost destroyed.

Then the nuke falls out of the sky and the screen goes white as it annihilates every living thing. Once the smoke clears it will reveal a completely destroyed earth.

Once the Radiation has left people will start rebuilding their homes, lives, and businesses, and the life cycle will start all over again. 

My plan is to also add sound effects to the flash file such as the sound of the missile launching and the bombs falling. I will get the sound effects from the website Sound Bible:  http://soundbible.com/ 

I also hope to make the environment as interactive as my limited Flash Skills allow, including making the destroying and rebuilding of the earth up the the viewer to manipulate and edit to their hearts content.

Finally I would also like to make my flash artwork predominantly with the paint brush, pencil and other tools available inside the Adobe Flash Software to make it look as authentic as possible.

New Media Art - Blog

For your first writing I want you to explore these two sites. Start with the first one and then move on to the second (sadly the second requires some signing up to see everything, so find what you can without signing up (or don't pay any money!) I want you to pick two works from turbulence and two from rhizomes. And write about them, offer your thoughts of these as artworks and as creations to play with and explore.


1st Artwork:
 http://www.turbulence.org/

Aleph Null by Jim Andrews is a generative, interactive, open source work written in JavaScript using HTML5. There is also a slideshow of screenshots to give you a sense of what it can look like it full flight. Aleph Null is colour music with no audio. It takes practice to tease the really good stuff out of it.

Here are the basic instructions on how to use Aleph Null:

- The 'e' key erases the canvas and changes the path the shape follows.
- The space key toggles stop/play.
- The 'c' key or clicking the canvas shifts the 'central color' by 1/4 of the spectrum.
- The 'm' key toggles mouse-controlled position of the shape.
- The 's' key changes the shape but keeps the same central color. Double-clicking the canvas changes the  shape and also the central color.
- For better viewing, go fullscreen. On a PC, the F11 key toggles fullscreen mode.
- The p key changes the path the shape traverses.

Here is the link to it: http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/alephnull/index.htm


2nd Artwork:
http://rhizome.org/

The second artwork I looked at was a piece called 'Life Cycle'.

Life Cycle presents the life cycle of people in a digital form which looks pretty cool. The first part of the art work is called 'In the City' which shows daily life in the city with a digital spin.

For the second section of the artwork which is called 'Flash Greetings' it shows the life cycle of a person with ten portraits.

Here is the link to view the artwork: http://rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/46815/