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ASSIGNMENT 0.1 - Screenshot

Screenshot : Refers to using keystrokes to capture an image of whatever is currently on your computer screen. This image is saved as a picture and is either placed on your hard drive or captured to the clipboard.

Navigate, Explore, go on a Safari. Your computer monitor is a window to the world. Apply a photographic mentality to your computer monitor. Makes a series of "Screenshots" of your desktop and/or the Internet. Develop a Web Gallery of images with Photoshop's "actions" and "automate" features. The project must include a brief online artist's statement explaining the purpose and concept of the project. Bring your projects to class next week on a zip disk, cd or post them to a website.

Possible projects:
- self-portrait
- landscape
- a day in the life

DEMO:

how to take a screenshot

photoshop :
How to create actions and batch process a folder of images.
> clik demo
> create a web gallery in photoshop - File --> Automate --> Web Photo Gallery

LINKS -

search engine recontextualizations
google
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
http://www.googlism.com/
http://www.googlefight.com/
http://www.googlewhack.com/
http://www.iterature.com/gogolchat/

metacrawler
http://www.metaspy.com/

software recontextualizations
photoshop hack - National Heritage

misl -
Digital Quilt
Natural Selection
form art
They Rule
Nancy Burson - Human Race Machine

screenshots -
http://k10k.net -> clik "ondisplay"

READINGS -
required -
"Chapter 8: The Net" from Media Virus by Douglas Rushkoff
"Chapter 1 : What is New Media" from The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
web work: a history of internet art* [7.5MB .pdf] by Rachel Greene

optional -
net art, web art, online art, net.art
* (brøgger)
ten myths of internet art* (ippolito)