Content note: Some works in Net Art Anthology deal with difficult material, including violence, sexuality, or other sensitive themes. If a work's description gives you pause, feel free to exclude it from your presentation and choose a different work instead.
Please read the assigned text and digest the theme and the works discussed
Go to the chapter assigned and read the entries for the works mentioned in the assigned text in Net Art Anthology at Rhizome.
Many of these works are not just described, they are live and archived, meaning you can actually open and click through the original piece yourself, sometimes running inside an emulated old browser so it behaves the way it did when it was first made. A few examples of what this looks like are below.
You can search the Internet for context/background but use the Rhizome database as a starting point. They often have the archived (original) version of the work.
Hint: Use "Find" (Cmd-F) on the browser and search for the artist name or title of the work.
Example: a work viewed live through an emulated old browser (via oldweb.today), so it runs the way it looked in its original era.Example: an interactive piece you can still click through.Example: a work archived at archive.rhizome.org that you can browse and watch directly in your own browser today.
Give us a tour of the works discussed that are in Net Art
Anthology using the actual works (or if too complicated,
screenshots) and introduce to us (visually) the works, key moments/themes
within the works that you think are worth looking at/discussing,
give us a narrative of what the work you think is doing.
Please come up with a few questions or topics you would like the class to think about and discuss. Plan to actually pose these to the class and lead that part of the conversation yourselves.
You can split the works amongst yourselves or collaborate and give us a single presentation that covers the works mentioned in the text
