Project in Progress

Since researching about web art (for my seminar and this project), I’ve decided that I will be manipulating qualities of the web to create my web art piece.

It has always been an interest of mine to form a connection between architectural structures and the characters they appear to suggest within a city landscape. What may seem like a familiar building within a city landscape holds unique characteristics, such as the window, capturing rare geometric shapes and surface transformations due to the conditions and constraints of erosion and time. These often go unnoticed but are worthy of acknowledgment, and this is what I like to accomplish in my web art. As an artist, I also like the medium to speak for the subject matter. So I will use web qualities, such as frames, links, images, and windows, to communicate meaning. Every process (clicks) creates and changes these structures of familiarity into something new and engaging.

I have decided to simply use HTML and CSS to create my web art so that I can exploit all its possible use. I’m currently exploiting the web element of frames by creating a framing environment for my images. I’m manipulating frames and nesting them within other frames. So I’m basically splitting the browsing window into a number of different sub-windows, each of which can be used to display different content yet seen through one window. In my site, the frames will separate each architectural structure from one another. The user will be able to build architectural structures, and understand there qualities and relation to others.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on windows, especially how it is represented in hypermedia. The web changed the way we view frame-to-frame movement that is usually seen in films, where a frame follows another. In the web, it converts the frame into a collage, where it’s unlike the continual edit. Frames can be placed anywhere and can separate content from other content on a same window.

Currently working on:
- Frame page: Working on splitting frames (http://www.geocities.com/antonellc/index.htm)
- Individual pages: Working on removing margins (http://www.geocities.com/antonellc/frames/frame_3.html)
- I’ve collected a group of images and currently post processing them and making them into graphics.
- Site layout image example: (http://www.geocities.com/antonellc/images/example4.jpg)

Sources:
- HTML Tools & Help Forum (Web Design Group: http://htmlhelp.com/ )
- Frames (W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html )
- Intro. To frames (USD: http://www.usd.edu/csci/acm/presentations/htmlTutorial/frames.html)