This is your first assigned project. Each team will consist of at least two class members focusing on one artist. Each team member is required to write their own 750 word report focused on your assigned artist. This report is due at 5:30PM on October 2nd and will count as your next two blog entries.

For this report you are being asked to research the artworks created by your assigned artist as well as write a concise overview of their work that samples and/or creatively remixes useful quotes from their own writings, interviews they have given, and/or what someone else has written about their work.

In addition to your net artist report, you will meet with your team member and prepare a 20-minute presentation on your research.

Your individual net art report should be posted as your next blog entry.

TIPS:

Develop a research strategy that enables you to:

• locate information on your assigned artist
• invest serious time interacting with the artist's work online
• write your report about this artist
• prepare and rehearse the 20-minute presentations you will give on October 3rd

For your reports, be sure to link to at least four external sites, including works by the artist, articles that feature the artist, and sites that feature the artist's own writing or interview the artist. Use these sites to further familiarize yourself with that artist and write your report.

Things to consider:

Describe the artists work in concise detail. Articulate the exhibition context for their work, i.e. why is it important that this work appear on the Internet? Is their work also exhibited in more traditional art spaces?

Discuss some of the unique characteristics of the artwork created by your assigned artist and discuss any conceptual, methodological, or thematic links to other works of art you are familiar with. Are there are other artists or cultural trends that inform this artist's work? Do these works relate to other media forms such as painting, film, photography, literature, performance, conceptual art, music, remix culture, political art, video art, etc.? How does their presence on the Internet change their status in a contemporary art context?

Try to imagine what the artist is trying to do with their work. What decisions did they make in order to create these works? Put yourself in their creative position: what is their relationship to digital culture? What are the themes, if any, that make their work stylistically consistent? Is it humor? Playfulness? Politics? Interaction / interface design? User-feedback and/or participation? Is the work formally experimental? Does it contain narrative? Glitch aesthetics? Remix? Technological innovation?

Collaborative Teams:

Ana Elfring & Kit Spivak: Rick Silva

Corrina Espinosa & Jessica Masson: Yael Kanerak

Monica Bolles & Carolyn Stroud: Sara Ludy

Jess Meyers & Haley Hudgens & Nick Lawler: Amalia Ulman

Valerie Bobadilla & Alee Bono: Mark Napier

Greg Sackett & Nathaniel Bush: jim punk