Internet Art Chapter 3

          For chapter three I researched Maciej Wisniewski, a well-known digital artist. His work reminds me of Annie Abrahams internet art from chapter two because Maciej also relates his exploration of the internet with humans. His first major project was Netomat, an interactive network-based experiment that allowed people to communicate without using traditional internet search engines. It brought up pages and internet sources that matched whatever someone typed in the search bar, so essentially it was the first form of "Google". Maciej also invented a new language that is compatible with Netomat; making this project an entirely new, revolutionary milestone in internet communications. These inventions by Maciej are groundbreaking, and I haven't even mentioned his artwork yet. He is clearly a very influential artist in the digital world, and his efforts seem to have hugely contributed to internet art and programming. The piece of art shown in "Internet Art" that first caught my eye is "Instant Places", just because of the visual appeal of the hawks on the pale blue background. This piece created a connection between different networks that had no outside influences such as time and place. His work brought people together using the internet and networking, which is what the ultimate goal of the internet should be. Below is an image representing "Instant Places".

          The second artist I researched was Amy Alexander, an artist with a very wide range of talents. She is a performance artist working with film, music, and video as well as an internet artist working with screen-based software art and net art. What first caught my eye was her piece called "b0timati0n", shown in "Internet Art". This project was so bright and so colorful that I couldn't look away, and I was even more impressed when I found out that it is actually a search engine that uses patterns, light, and sound to create a visually stimulating image. Amy uses a background in musical performance to influence her internet art, which can be seen in "CyberSpaceLand". The link for this is provided below, and it is clear that Amy combines many different forms of art into this piece to create a diverse internet masterpiece. I think Amy is an extremely talented artist, and I am thoroughly impressed by how much she actually does. She is not only an internet artist; she explore many different areas and fields. It is important for different aspects of art to intermingle with each other so that new forms of art can be created, and Amy definitely does that. 

http://amy-alexander.com/live-performance/cyberspaceland.html