Belated Entry: Internet Art - Chapter 3

I was particularly bemused by the Toywar. etoy vs. eToys. The concept of the infowar, warring states in cyberspace is fascinating. Though no casualties resulted from the war besides the bankruptcy of the eToys entity, it showed that big companies can't just waltz into a given territory and take it over with fancy concepts such as the law. This silly online battle showed that online territory should still be treated with sovereign attitudes. It's quite impresseive that members of the etoy community were able to come up with such strategy to villainize the corporation suing them in order to raze their web domain.

Hackers and crackers on the internet are both awesome and deplorable, depending who is being cracked. Piracy is a great and terrible, when you consider the amount of media being distributed without cost - the internet is a place you can get any-digital-thing if you know where to go. Today's pirates are perhaps youths desensitised to the damage that piracy deals to the markets as it is so easy to acquire anything you like if you know where to look online. The future probably holds punishments severe enough to outlaw online piracy to the point it actually demonstrates on traditional maritime piracy seen today - legendary and terrible.

Final

Theseus vs. Minotaur

Resubmission - Digital Self Portrait

Digital Art - Chapter 3

These interactive art pieces incorporating "Artificial Intelligence" are all-too familiar to me, as I have seen similar innovations in many video games - how is this new? I must admit that the works I've encountered as commercialized games are more aesthetic, creative, and entertaining than the examples labeled in the chapter. I wonder if to be considered art, a work must be produced by one person alone who identifies themselves as an artist, one who is not contributed to a company or business in any way. My interaction with the art world has always eluded to this notion that movies, music, games, comics, and anything not displayable in a museum is not art, though I have not found a reason why or even encountered someone asking the same question - why aren't these things considered works of art? Comics are the only thing that do in fact fall into the category of art as I have seen original inkings of old comics displayed in museums and regarded as Art.

Flash

Internet Art - Chapter 4

There is no firm definition of art thus far - the mention of the first person to sell their old socks on Ebay doesn't seem like art to me. Additionally, the person selling their "blackness" does not seem like a work of art rather a statement. Setting cameras up for surveillance is not a means to create art either, hoping you catch something good. You could simply look outside your window and proclaim what you're viewing is art. Simply because the surveillance is displayed in a museum does not qualify it as art. I've seen commercialized art fail to reach so-called artist's standards of definition, yet they accept certain oddities simply for their quizzical nature it seems.

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