Hi everyone, it would be great if you could add your work to the Idealine or
spread the word...
"Idea Line"
A Net Art Idea Line mapping lines of thought through time
by Martin Wattenberg
http://artport.whitney.org
http://www.whitney.org/artport/idealine
Martin Wattenberg's "Idea Line" -- a timeline of net artworks -- has been
launched on artport, the Whitney's portal to net art. "Idea Line" is the
first of a series of net art projects that will be commissioned for the
artport site. The "Idea Line" is designed to show both the variety of
themes, technologies, and media that net art has been using and the relation
of each artwork to the larger tapestry of all these diverse approaches. The
timeline -- a visualization of a database of net art projects that have been
created from 1995 until today -- is arranged in a fan of luminous threads.
Each thread corresponds to a particular kind of artwork or type of
technology. The brightness of each thread varies with the number of artworks
that it contains in each year, so that one can watch the ebb and flow of
different lines of thought over time. The lines open up to reveal titles of
artworks and access information about them as well as the artworks
themselves.
The database behind the "Idea Line" currently contains almost 200 artworks
by more than 100 artists. An invitation to contribute to this database was
sent out as a public request to several net art forums. In addition, data on
many popular or influential artworks that were not covered in the responses
were added. The net art database is publicly accessible and information
about net artworks can still be entered.
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