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View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work YouTube Video by Wall Street Journal I find it interesting to explore NFTs , or Non-Fungible Tokens , as someone who creates digital art and wonders constantly about the accessibility of other artists' work. When an NFT is purchased of a tweet, image, or even sport highlight reel it becomes a uniquely tracked individual block within the blockchain and cannot actually be

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities LaTurbo Avedon Online Avatar, Artist & Curator LaTurbo Avedon - Ethereum Lens , 2021 LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar artist and curator of internet art pieces who began exploring the realm of the anti-body , as brought up and addressed by Legacy Russell in her Glitch Feminism Manifesto , while in a strictly digital world in 2008. Her pieces frequently spark dialogues surrounding the literal physicality of the internet by using simula

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities I am once again asking... Above is an evolution of a meme that was birthed in January of 2020 during the presidential campaigning. Candidate Bernie Sanders was quoted in a video he released saying 'I am once again asking for your financial support' and from there, a relatable meme about asking for money was born. Netizens couldn't stop there though, as in the second meme, not only was the situation in which you were requesting mone

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell Prior to diving in to explore this cosmic range of knowledge that Legacy Russell lays out for us in her Manifesto, Glitch Feminism , I have had my own pre-exposure to the topic and my original perceptions . I was excited to learn we would be researching and obtaining more depth on this topic, as it is something I have already tried to explore in a couple of my earlier pieces! I create

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities Is The Internet Good or Bad? Yes. Medium by Zeynep Tufekci The way Zeynep Tufekci talks about the use of the internet for connectivity and communication on a scale where it is life or death brings light to the idea of censorship within the surveillance capitalism that consumes our economy. Even in the United States, TikTok started taking heat because of how much it can expose about what is not shown on our televisions or shared b

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2013) by Limor Shifman When considering Richard Dawkins' definition and inclusion of memes being these imitated things ranging from fashion, to melodies, to abstract beliefs, I'm brought back to this idea that memes have far too much power for their own good. Limor Shifman goes into how not only can memes themselves have

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities 'A Problem...' First Glitch Piece This glitch started from the ‘blue screen of death’ which to me is the most ultimate and easy to recognize glitch. The only part of the error message left after glitching was ‘A problem h…’ I think it is fascinating how that worked out because glitches are considered errors and problems, and the theme we have been challenged to explore in class is the beauty and aesthetic within the glitches. Becau

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities A Brief History of the Internet - First Website, First Meme... YouTube by ColdFusion I find ColdFusion's Brief History of the Internet a really great starting point of furthering my knowledge after reflecting on my own personal history and familiarity with the internet. My history of the internet is pretty short compared to the actual scheme of things, and this video really puts that into a new and deeper perspective. I especiall

View Internet Art Cultures Blog on Neocities Hey there! I'm Ilona Kovacs, like 'e-low-nuh ko-vatch.' As a student at the University of Denver, I find passion in my Emergent Digital Practices major partnered with a Marketing minor. What's Emergent Digital Practices? I'm part of the dissolving line between critical thinkers and artists, having profound skills in both areas. I otherwise enjoy the Rocky Mountains, soft and fuzzy fabrics, chocolate sprinkles, and collecting chicke

Collectively, Timothy Rubio, Stella Brown, Catie Bryant, and I authored a media narrative of biological encounters that can be interpreted as proof equivalence to one of the NASA Life Detection paradigms for exoplanets from The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems NASA’s Definition of Life Our Central Question Design Feasibility We decided to use Creative Commons Media due to its accessibility and its usage laws. We were really interested in remixing what already exis

Challenge: Speculatively visualize a chronobiology comparison between a non-human organism/ecology and humans. This may be based on speculative time perception arrived at with media (sound or motion graphics) processed thru a simulated/biomimetic (software) clock & rate/speed adjusted via comparative data. For our Chronobiology project, Timothy Rubio, Stella Brown, Catie Bryant, and I decided to focus on the comparison between the speculative time perception of ruby-throated

Prior to even reading this article from the New York Times, I’m put into a flashback of a tangent from freshman year of high school in health class: The Great Mamut. We were discussing the resurgence of these creatures from the Ice Age, but my teacher was a bit silly in remembering the details of it making that a pretty big inside jokes between my friends and me (nerdy, yes). Looking at the year The Mammoth Cometh was written (2014), I wouldn’t be surprised if this was exact

Emulation & Propagation in Post-Traditional Ecologies As primarily a critical thinker and artist, I find lengthy scientific texts incredibly scary. This essay written by Timothy Weaver collected in Second Nature: Origins and Originality in Art, Science and New Media introduces readers at a great pace. Immediately, Biomimetics is explained to the reader as “design innovation inspired by nature” which I personally think is a perfectly clear cut definition.

The Challenge: Design a speculative indicator/sentry organism as an exercise into meta-scale biodesign for the future. Conceptual Design Design Feasibility Biodesign Scale Representation Biocultural Impact

As someone who finds bugs incredibly disgusting and scary, I am really interested in how large the scale of their uses is. I have always thought insects were just the bottom of the food chain and helped out here and there with decomposing or whatever, but after reading Jussi Parikka’s Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics my mind was opened to all of the possibilities that humans have based on what we have and will discover from our insect friends. I find the study of movement

After being introduced to the topic of BioMedia, we were challenged to notice some of the ways it has effects on our daily lives. Interaction One One of the more obvious ways that I see BioMedia in my everyday life now is with my dental implants. Originally, I didn’t quite understand how this wasn’t just a mechanical experience. It took me going into the oral surgeons office and having them work with the actual implants to realize how fused to my body and a part of me they we

I find that the overall concept and theory of BioMedia can be encompassed in the ways that life can be recorded as information. It always comes back to what a body can do . In the reading, Eugene Thacker tells us about the two ways that we can use on DNA by two separate fields. The first is done by computer scientists and involves jumping between computers and databases to predict protein combinations in a DNA sequence. The second is much more complicated for me to understand

Conceptual Design My team and I worked with the goal of creating wildfire smoke detection, history, and forecasting devices used to alert fire safety protocols based on current AQI data and educate communities on the dangers of its contaminants and spread. Design Feasibility & Drawings Design Scale By creating a household alarm, communal alarms, and implementing the education and specific features of our app, Smoke Alert’s compatibility from school wide, statewide, nationwide

Conceptual Design I collaborated with a group of my peers to prototype a learning tool used for communities to better understand the unpredictable nature of the dangers and spread of wildfires. Our models focus is on creating a warning with both sound and word based on the air quality. Design Feasibility Design Scale Technical Specifications Sustainability Impact My Work Because of the collaboration style of my team, we chose to break off and each tackle different tasks separ

Conceptual Design A novel device providing accessible energy through solar charged outlet boxes and solar charging stations to offset our use of nonrenewable resources. Design Feasibility Design Scale Technical Specifications Design Drawings Sustainability Impact