Digital, Internet and New Media Art & Literature

The “About” page of Whitney Artport

artport.whitney.org is the official gateway or web portal of Whitney Museum. This portal is about net and digital art, and also an online web space for commissioned net art projects. In the about page of Whitney Airport, they describe their different areas and services that they are offering to the artists and visitors. Everyone can have an idea bout the design and lunched information of Whitney artport from their about page.

The “About” page of Rhizome

Rhizome developed in 1996 as a platform for the global new media art community. It is a place for the new media art and discussion, exhibition, review, critic of it. Whitney and Rhizome are quite similar as both of the sites are about digital artwork and project. The only difference between these two is their services. Rhizome is much more advanced with their services than Artport.

Wikipedia: Digital Art, Internet Art and New Media Art

Digital art could be a computer generated sculpture, painting, and drawing or could be a scanned photograph. An art or artwork that uses the internet as a primary medium is called Internet Art. The New media art is quite broad than Digital Art and Internet Art. New Media Art covers almost all kinds of art including Digital Art and Internet Art.

I Love Bees

I Love Bees (ILB) is considered one of the most popular alternate reality game served as a real-world experience computer game. To play ILB, players need to log on to the each week to find the latest clues and a list of the pay phones that will be called. When a player correctly answers a pay-phone question then the player will be treated to 30 seconds of new material. The most interesting thing of this game is that some players could have the possibility get one of the rare live calls in which the drama’s actors talk and then incorporate the conversation into the show itself.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65365

Implementation

The idea of the “Implementation” is very interesting to me as it is a serial novel printed on sheets of stickers. I would say implementation is a New Media Art rather than a Digital or Internet Art. The installed art could be digital art or Internet art but with the combination of all these media it becomes a New Media Art to me.

http://nickm.com/implementation/description.html

Simulated World and Second Life

I am quite familiar with the word “Simulated World” after watching the movie “The Matrix”. This is not because of I liked the movie; I liked the concept “Simulated World/Virtual Reality”. The “Virtual reality” is the idea that reality could be simulated to a degree indistinguishable from “true” reality. For instance, Second Life - an Internet-based simulated world.

I tried to enter in Second Life several times but could not make it due to restart problem in my computer. While I entered in Second Life the computer restart itself after a while. Maybe the computer does not like Second Life. I entered the virtual world in another computer and started to move around by foot. I was just stacked in an area after a while and could not come out. As I know that in Second Life there are two kinds of communication methods such as local chat and instant messaging (IM). I found some people over there and asked for help with the help of IM but failed. I could not understand what to do and was unable to get any direction from others so I signed out from Second Life then. I re-entered in Second Life again but with a female login name “Sania Carter” and I was getting instant message from others especially boys. I made it possible with a fake identity.

In a virtual world the main problem is fake identity, fake gendering. It is very easy to make a person fool and it is also very tough to trust anyone there. It is very important to verify the identification of the residents in Second Life. It could be done with their valid credit card, card or PayPal account number, or by responding to a cell phone SMS text message. Second Life could be a place for sex freak because most of the people I know are only looking for sex in Second Life. I would rather prefer the real world than a virtual world and Second Life could not be a replacement of a real world.

If anyone asks me do you want to live in a simulated world permanently with all the things that you want? He will have then my quick answer “No, thanks. I am quite happy with my real world”.

Work Cited
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia. 2007. 10 Apr 2007. .

YouTube: Broadcast Your Idea

Honestly speaking, I am not very fond of folksonomies because of bad experience. I do not want to share my email address with those people or groups that I do not really know. When you share your email address in group email then you could have problems sometimes. For instance, I opened my first email address at the end of 1998 and I got a very nice email address named abdul@connectbd.com. The most important thing is that I got the email address with my name and it was completely free. One day I joined with my friend’s email group and then the mess started up. My friend added me in his friends group and his friends added me, him and his friends in their group. After a few months I found the group members crossed more than 300. I was getting at least 50 worthless emails everyday and as a result I had to abandoned the email address.

I like video.google.com and youtube.com very much as they serve us almost the same service but if any one wants me to choose one from these two then I will rather choose youtube than google video. I like YouTube very much because of its free uploading, viewing, and sharing video clips and definitely users could rate video and add comments on it. This site is the most user friendly video sharing site on the internet. The most flexible thing is that you do not need to be registered to watch most of the videos and the only thing you have to do type whatever you want to see in the search box. You are allowed to upload unlimited videos on YouTube but you have to be registered with YouTube when you are going to do it. According to YouTube, a 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded per 24 hours. The site has almost 20 million visitors each month, where around 44% are female, 56% male, and the 12- to 17-year-old age group is dominant.

However, Google video and YouTube are theoretically same thing. For instance, in two sites users could upload, share and watch videos but I think YouTube is better than Google. In YouTube, users could comment on videos, rate videos, make friends, create favorites, play lists and embed videos into their blogs. The videos have tags associated with them and for this action user have the results within the query and from the result they could see the search related videos, most popular, most viewed and also the top rated videos. The most important thing is that YouTube does not contain any nudity and as a result it becomes popular to all aged people. All these advantages make YouTube a excellent and user friendly video sharing websites on the World Wide Web.

With the advantages of YouTube, users can post their own videos on the web but today people are publishing others movies, music videos etc. without their permission. Even though YouTube has some lack in it but with the proper step it can be fixed easily.