/personal:persona website [A1] 10%
digital studio fall 2017
professor margaretha haughwout
due friday september 15 (edited)
This is a two step assignment 1) first, you will create a website to house your work in Digital Studio this semester, and 2) you will examine how the idea of the individual, the self, and/or the artist changes with advent of networked culture.
For the first part of the assignment, you will create a menu with links that go to pages for each assignment (these will be most likely empty until documentation of future digital art assignments are uploaded). You will need to demonstrate understanding of basic html and css, as well as file organization: I should be able to look at your code and see a matching closing tag for each open one, properly embedded tags, etc. In terms of css, you should be able to handle color, typography, some basic positioning through effecting tag elements, and classes. All code should be functional, so if you aren't using it, either clearly comment it out or delete it.
The second part of the assignment is conceptual. It can either be on the landing page of your website or be accessed through a menu link. Consider works of early net.artists like Oli Lialina, Young Hae Chang, Martine Neddam, and Heath Bunting, as well as your own observations of how the internet affects identity. Your angle might be focused on the development of the personal profile, on the role of the artist in distributed culture, or on the corporatization of identity. You can use hyperlinks, images, text, and/or other net elements to make a commentary on the relationship between the individual and the network.
This assignment will be graded on
1) your ability to understand the assignment and develop the initial idea
2) your understanding and utilization of basic html & css, as well as the organization of your files
3) independent thinking and conceptual, creative work
4) your ability to address promises, problems or tensions in the relationship between self and network...
Submit via Slack. Digital Studio Slack group (sign up here or from link in schedule)
Note: There might be a few of you who will think it's a good idea to use Dreamweaver. DO NOT USE DREAMWEAVER! It will create a million more problems that will be hard to solve.