Mike Fenn

I intend to make an interface that would allow me to demonstrate my various skills and works. I currently am in the transition of going from being an artist, to be an illustrator. As a result I have a lot of video and animation art as well as drawings and illustrations. Some made for the art stream and some made for design. Intend on making a website that shows the difference and transition between my two kinds of work. A website plan will quickly be drawn up. I intend it to be simple in design but visually stimulating.


Oh, quick question. I want people to be able to comment on my work. is there a way to make a comment section?

How to Add an Image

You browse to the file, click "upload", click done, and return to publish the post.

flash

i will be using Habitat 67 as a template for the windows of the houses which will all be clickable but only when they are lit up.

I would like the windows to have some sort of timeline which is based on the hours of a day each windows will at some point be lit up and clickable whereas others will not be available. each will have its own timeline (if its possible)meaning it is only clickble for example from 6 till 11 pm whereas another may be clickable all day but not at night.
also when clicked a new window will appear with a photo of the window accompanied by a spoken character sketch. im thinking of maybe having a story revolving around 'characters' ive created using the windows as the initial building block. the items visible through the windows will cast them as a certain character in a drama where we never see the characters, only the windows of their homes.

Jessie - Project Outline

PROJECT OUTLINE

As a photography major, I have a collection of thousands of images and which are unorganized in binders and boxes. For my final project I would like to create a digital portfolio in order to present my strongest work to others. Using Flash I will create an interactive website that is highly stylized in a layout made to resemble a scrapbook, with a similar experience to a scrapbook for the user. It will have the illusion of a more tactile "real life" object, but of course be completely digitized. I would like it so that it doesn't even necessarily have to be published on the web but can be opened by a CD which I can make copies of to share.

WEEK 5 - 6 Research effectively executed scrapbook-style pieces by other artists
WEEK 7-9 Scan negatives and photographs, curate which photos mesh the best as a whole body of work
WEEK 10-12 Build layout
WEEK 13 Present

SCREENING AT ROYAL CINEMA - volunteers needed

This Sunday Feb. 11 at 2:30 PM there will be a benefit screening for the Dyana Afghan Women's Fund of Christian Frei's "The Giant Buddhas", with a presentation by Nelofer Pazira. The benefit tickets are $25. w/ a $15. charitable receipt. (PLEASE URGE YOUR FRIENDS / FAMILY WHO CAN AFFORD IT TO COME - a very good cause!). Also. student volunteers are needed who will get in FREE. Please let me know in the 'Comments' section below if you'd like to come.

Rt

"Rt"

Rt is an online website based project that aims to explore the relation between gallery and virtual space. Furthermore it is an opportunity for curatorial and critical practices to collaborate with an array of mixed medias that might bring up pertinent questions regarding the role of the internet, the art, the curator, the artist and the viewer as well as their relationship to one another.

Rt will function as a virtual, curated space that features art, especially by young and emerging artists. It is my hopes that be focusing on young and emerging artists I can open a dialogue and a collaboration process where by the site actively participates in discussing how virtual reality creates, displays and informs a viewer about the object and ideology of an art piece.

The site will feature a main page that has a playful theme of "drugs." Though not promoting the use of drugs the site will appropriate the ideas attached to most drugs incuding the theme of: addiction, prescription, treatment, health and individual purpose. That is to say that the site will utilize the image of pills and prescription drugs to reate a parallel to art which describes art and the viewing of art as a process of cause and effect.

As a curatorial space Rt will attempt to assume a role that is simmilar to a realistic gallery space and will function as a space that is open to include: critical analysies and writings, images, videos, sounds, event promotions, merchandise, animations and any other array of "art form" that satisfies the sites manifesto (to be written).

The ideal of Rt is to create a curatorial space that also confronts different forms of gallery spaces including institutional, alternative and commercial and utilizes those aspects to create a hybrid virtual space that can offer the same or similar services.

Potential services available to the user will be: available newsletters, browsing abilities on a unique interface, forum (?), download audio and visual pieces, oekaki, game play (?), purchasing rights.

Ultimately Rt is a quest into the potential role of a curator in the virtual realm that will utilizes conventional forms of gallery space in order to disolve previous boundries and offers a new way to look at objects.


Week 1:
- Manifesto
- Digital Imaging of Main Site
- Site Layout - Home Page, Contact Page, Manifesto Page
- Research Newsletters

Week 2:
- Site Layout - Home Page, Events Page
- Digital Imaging of Artist 1
- Site Layout Collaboration with Artist 1
- Research Forums/Message Boards

Week 3:
- Site Layout - Newslettering (On Contacts Page), Affeliations, Artist 1
- Build Affeliate Connections
- 1 Critical Review of a Current Exhibition
- Research Oekaki

Week 4:
- Site Layout - Forums, Oekaki, Artist 1
- Digital Imaging of Artist 2
- Site Layout Collaboration with Artist 2
-Curatorial Statement Artist 1

Week 5:
- Site Layout - Artist 2 (+ any other incomplete)
- Curatorial Statement Artist 2
- 1 Critical Review of a Current Exhibition

voyeurism

when the internal becomes external judgement has commenced.
stereotyping.social grouping. demographics.
we struggle to outwardly reflect our ideas and beliefs without looking like an advertisement.
through possessions we create project visions of who we think we and others are.
a window is connects the public with the private.
who are you?
the window frames the plant in its sill. a block parent sign. a cat.
a standard mailbox.2 cars in driveway honda civic and ford focus..
an image forms in my head
we are all voyeurs.