Net(works): Art and Pre-Existing Web Platforms 4

Conceptual Interventions: Net(worked) Performance that reclaims Virtual Infrastructures. Will Justice, UC Santa Cruz.

As a practicing Digital Media Artist with a background in Literature and Classics, I'm interested in scholarship that attempts to identify, structure, and situate contemporary interdisciplinary art practices in ways that make their ontological processes more understandable while retaining and sometimes creating institutional awareness of such works' significance in academic and art practical circles. Beyond approaching through the literal structures of the ePlatforms themselves, the paper will seek a conceptual point of entry relating the works in context of the comedic conventions thus clearly illuminating the mechanisms of social critique. While hyperbolous users -- Obadike, Conrad Bakker, 'ebayday' comically exaggerate their consumptive claims through diction, and mixed media rhetoric, incongruous uses - Brody Condon's "Velvet-Strike", U of Nevada, Reno's "Quake/Friends", Second Life digital terrorism, are marked by unexpected misuses by the normative. Infelicitous users, following in tradition with the likes of "lonelygirl15", JenniCam, Peppermint, et al, represent through mis/fictional/poetic representations as rhetoric. I also intend to discuss Peppermint in 'institutional' contrast to the Gif show, both on the same platform, as infelicitous users betraying the pretense of MySpace's assumptions with regard to identity as well as Peppermint's MySpace in relation to the many 'friends' his institution's profile has accumulated.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• art
• internet
• sl
• second life
• web art
• performance
• intervention
• education