IDS 335 Spring 2025 Readings and Resources
Required Readings
"In Plato's Cave" by Susan Sontag (Chapter 1 from On Photography)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
"Video Games, Design, and Aesthetic Experience" by James Paul Gee
"Silence is a Commons" by Ivan Illich
"The False Promise of ChatGPT" by Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, and Jeffrey Watumull
"AI Art and its Impact on Artists" Jiang, Harry H., et al.
Resources for Research Project
Art Journals, Magazines, and Blogs
The Art Journal
ARTnews
Art in America
Art Forum
Journal for Artistic Research
International Symposium for Electronic Art
Hyperallergic
My Modern Met
(You need to be on campus or signed into the library for these links to work)
Academic Search Complete
Arts and Humanities Database
WEB ART!
Olia Lialina
JODI art collective. Here is a non-exhaustive list of links to their work:
- https://jodi.org
- wwwwwwwww.jodi.org - the website that caused Jodi's uproar in popularity with contemporary art.
- globalmove.us - another website using Google Maps, this time creating artistic patterns with the map signs.
- geogeo.jodi.org - a site using Google Maps to show supposed 'Cityfonts'.
- map.jodi.org - Jodi's personal map of the Web.
- 404.jodi.org - playing with the "404 - File not Found" premise.
- sod.jodi.org - an art game modification of Wolfenstein 3D.
- asdfg.jodi.org - an experimental website, using randomly generated ASCII art and Javascript.
- yt-rtyuiop.org - an experimental website, very similar to asdfg.jodi.org, YouTube related.
- text.jodi.org - a website similar to wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, containing jumbled graphics.
- jetsetwilly.jodi.org - an edit of the game Jet Set Willy.
- wrongbrowser.com - absurd artistic interpretation of a browser (Alt-F4 to exit on Windows, CMD-Q on Mac).
- g33con.com - archive containing many websites, including the redirect experiment "you-talking-to-me-you-talking-to-me-you-talking-to-me.com".
- untitled-game.org - also on CD-ROM, twelve modifications of Quake.
- maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org - cheats on built-in functions of the video game Max Payne 2 - new work released in May 2006.
- tatatataa.cn - an experimental website with a grey background, along with the voice of Duke Nukem saying the Textedit options.
- zyx-app.com - an art project, experimenting with iPhones and human movement.
- compositeclub.cc - a web archive, each containing various clips from PlayStation 2 Eyetoy games being "played" by movies.
- audioswap5.com - redirects to a YouTube channel showing videos of internet-themed songs recorded onto vinyl.
- oss.jodi.org - another Javascript site, famous for containing malicious code.
- x20xx.com - slightly related to zyx-app.com, contains various visual experiments.
- folksomy.net - a web archive containing randomly selected clips from YouTube, all by tag.
- mboxjodi.org - another web archive, this time containing lists of various files, ordered by file extension.
- net-art.org/jodi - biographical entry on net-art.org digital "encyclopedia".
More net art:
For more web art, you can check out the html review. There is also an archive of web art available at rhizome.org.
More web artists worth checking out: Darius Kazemi, Everest Pipkin, Chia Amisola.
Diana Smith is the artist that makes realistic paintings using only html and css.