Mediascape

phyllis | art projects, software | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I found this website that has a few mediascape projects on it:

http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/mediascape/

Here is a passage from one of the pages.

Raw Material: Brrr (1990) by Bruce Nauman, another early practitioner of video art, also compresses experience into intense bursts of electronic image and sound. Images of the artist’s face are shown on two TV monitors, with a similar image projected onto an adjacent wall. Unlike the “talking heads” seen on TV, these faces have little to tell us, as they repeatedly blurt, in a nonsensical gesture, the simple monosyllable “Brrr.”

I was not impressed by the actual website itself, I felt like it could use some development to make it easier to navigate and help it be more intuitive, but going through it I found some interesting projects. I also though the fact that it was sponsored by the Guggenheim was pretty cool.

Personally I was pretty irritated by my own mediascape project until last week when we were able to work out all the kinks. I would have developed it further and made changes according to the beta testing, but since we had limited resources for computers, it changed the way the project came out. My biggest gripe would be that the software NEEDS to be duel platform. In this day and age Macs are just as popular among designers and artists as PCs, and for a software company to succeed they really need to accomodate both types of computers.

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