precedents
To create an interesting work, I feel that it is important to have a look at some precedents for it, even if these are not necessarily web art.
William Kentridge has used maps in one of his films Procession. He scanned and enlarged sections of an old atlas and integrated them into images for the film.
Atlas Procession II (2000), William Kentridge.
Inland Delta, 1999, Karen Guzak
I really like this work because it feels like a say, a satellite image of the earth, rather than a map or painting. It is, however, both of these things as well.
Boys' Art #2: Nagasaki, Joyce Kozloff, 2003
I don't particularly like the figures in this image, although it does lend it a busy cartoony where's Wally feel that fits this image well. I have included this mixed media work as I appreciate the use of the maps. I really like the way it is obviously a map, but some is coloured, leaving the rest black and white. This is a technique that I would like to use in my piece of web art.
Kozloff explores the way people are by using the imagery of different cultures. She also focuses her attention to the uncovering of cultural identify by the mapping of it.
Much of her work containing maps is about uncovering the story behind a country or its people. Its past conquests and control, how its indigenous people fared, and so on.
Kozloff uses imagined maps as well as real in her work.
Some more work by Joyce Kozloff:
Knowledge: North America, 1625,
(1998)
Fresco on Panel
I particularly like this image. Everyone recognises the form of the continent, but what is she trying to say? Why is California separated? What was her intention in this image? The fact that it raises questions like these makes me like it even more.
William Kentridge has used maps in one of his films Procession. He scanned and enlarged sections of an old atlas and integrated them into images for the film.
Atlas Procession II (2000), William Kentridge.
Inland Delta, 1999, Karen Guzak
I really like this work because it feels like a say, a satellite image of the earth, rather than a map or painting. It is, however, both of these things as well.
Boys' Art #2: Nagasaki, Joyce Kozloff, 2003
I don't particularly like the figures in this image, although it does lend it a busy cartoony where's Wally feel that fits this image well. I have included this mixed media work as I appreciate the use of the maps. I really like the way it is obviously a map, but some is coloured, leaving the rest black and white. This is a technique that I would like to use in my piece of web art.
Kozloff explores the way people are by using the imagery of different cultures. She also focuses her attention to the uncovering of cultural identify by the mapping of it.
Much of her work containing maps is about uncovering the story behind a country or its people. Its past conquests and control, how its indigenous people fared, and so on.
Kozloff uses imagined maps as well as real in her work.
Some more work by Joyce Kozloff:
Knowledge: North America, 1625,
(1998)
Fresco on Panel
I particularly like this image. Everyone recognises the form of the continent, but what is she trying to say? Why is California separated? What was her intention in this image? The fact that it raises questions like these makes me like it even more.
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5:45 PM
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al web art / DVD / digital poduction is based on what you term as precidents. Dadaism, Bauhaus, Russian Constructivists used design principles, poetry, Mathematics etc etc is sources. So does art and design online. I work at times in film edting and my style is I think from my early work as a painter. A friend works at the Sydney opera in set dsign. it affects his style art work.
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