Digital Art & Literature

Artport:

This site supports mostly digital art and different research projects related to digital art. I would say that the site is mostly for the artists and instead of providing artifacts, it feels like this site is more about promoting the artists behind the works.

Rhizome.org:

This site, on the other hand, seems to be focusing more on the projects than the artists behind them. It supports not only digital art, but also text, though the provided text is mostly related to the artwork, such as comments, conversations and listings. It supports mainly digital art such as: software, code, websites, moving image and games. The artbase directory conveys all of the digital works published on the site.

Wikipedia[n] articles:

In comparing the different categories Digital Art, Internet Art and New Media Art I guess that they all are somewhat alike, since they are all connected to technology and computers in some way.

Digital Art is basically something that has been modified by some computer application, such as computer made or retouched images.

Internet Art is often called net.art and uses Internet as its primary medium. It is not of the same importance in what medium the message, or artwork, is created but as long as it is dependent on Internet when it comes to publishing, spreading and sharing it may be classified as net.art.

New Media Art is basically artwork created with new media technologies. These technologies can be anything from computers to robots, including e.g. animations and graphics. It is quite similar to Digital Art, but is more culturally precise and broader in the sense that it may be created by more advanced technology than computer applications or software.

I Love Bees:

I would argue that this is perhaps on the border when classified as a game. Though it is an ARG, an Alternative Reality Game, but for me this is not what I would define as a game. To me, it is more of a narrative, created somewhat collaboratively by all the participants. It is being played, or acted out through different media, but most important - it takes place in reality.

I Love Bees was played just like this, one person created a plot and gave missions for the participants to play out and solve. First, some bottles of honey was sent out. The labels of these bottles coonveyed an anagram, I Love Bees, which led the participants to the web site, and thereafter to a blog and so on. I would describe this as Internet art, since Internet is its primary medium.

Implementation:

I am sure I have seen this before, but can't really remember in what course. Anyway it reminds me of the work Skin, by Shelley Jackson. Parts of a text is spread out all over the world on stickers, which people post in public spaces. This kind of art is very conventional and non-linear. I am really not sure what to call it, but since we are discovering three kinds of art I guess I would go with new media art. It is not dependent on any particular digital medium, but it is a pioneering way to spread a message and to spread one's art all over the world without digital media. The cultural sense of this project is way broader and more important than the technological part, hence the lack of technological importance.