2013年10月24日 星期四

My boyfriend came back from the war

Title: My boyfriend came back from the war
Artist: Olia Lialina
When to release: 1996
Location:  Web 

Detail: 
*Combines the images and narrative
*Love story à a couple reconvene after the war 
*The screen is divided into several frames
*Audiences are able to navigate by clicking on the text and images
*New frames and pages are taken 

Technique: 
*Hypertext to give the user instruction
*contains links to other texts

*The audiences have no limit as it 

share some of features of other artist and art movement:
*Piet Mondrian
    à lines delineate the rectangular forms
    à thick lines make brilliant contrast against the background
   à primary color : black and white color 



*DaDa Art
    à uses the Internet as medium, and which
         could not exist in the real world

*Conceptual Art : focus on the idea and concept of the work over the materials used and the traditional aesthetics
    à hypertext  



Aesthetically pleasing :

 White and black are two mainly colors exist in the web, the big contrast reflect how a  person mentally 
change caused by the war. The first image depicts two people, one is colored with black while the other is colored with white, actually they are the same people, the white represents the man in the prewar, while the black represents him on postwar.

The noteworthy about this work: 

It is a browser-based cyberfeminist art, the artist  used the hyperlinks and frames to create to the art work by clicking on images and texts. It is considered as a breakthrough in art world because the audience not only can merely look at it, but they can also take part of it by clicking the image. 

Quote: 

1. Lev Manovich,The Language of New Media (First MIF Press paperback edition , 2002), 45.

'The spatial montage of My boyfriend came back from teh war follows the logic of simultaneity of the modern GUI... The user of Lialina's site can activate different hyperlinks that are all simultaneously present. Every action changes either the contents of a single frame or creates a new frame or frames.'


2. Tribe Mark , New Media Art, ( Taschen , 2006) 

 'But what is it that makes this particular work so influential? Perhaps it resonates with other artists because it is among the earliest works of New Media art to produce the kind of compelling and emotionally powerful experience that we have come to expect from older, more established media, particularly film.'






1 則留言:

  1. Helen, some nice work on your blog overall! your discussion of the above work has room for improvement though, and if you make these improvements it will help ALL your work as these comments apply to the other entries on your blog too. When you give details of the work, be REALLY detailed--don't forget the basics: what kind of work is it? How do you interest with/use it? What kind of software is used? etc etc Follow this principle for everything --assume your reader knows nothing about the work or the topic --be clear and detailed enough so that after they read or hear your presentation they will feel they really understand. The choice of quotes is good. Can you explain in your own words more about what they mean? Do you agree? When you talk about the work and why it is noteworthy, is there anything more you want to say, that when YOU think about the work strikes you personally as very important? Can you explain that and back it up with evidence, extra details? Good luck with this!

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