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/