Web Art week two- What is web art?

Wall Street Journal- The internet as art

New York Digital Salon- 10 myths of internet art

Piece 1- Grammatron

-Grammatron, by artist Mark Amerika, explores the concept of digital narrative through links.

Piece 2- My Boyfriend Came Back From the War

-By Olia Lialina, uses early web formats and windows to create a unique way to experience a narrative.

Piece 3- Black People Love Us!

-BPLU uses irony and humor in the format of a web page that comments on social assumptions.

Piece 4- Superbad

-Superbad by Ben Benjamin- No clue

Piece 5- Heavy Industries

-By Yound-Hae Chang, uses text as pure narrative in the context of web.

Piece 6- Google Will Eat Itself

-The artists use money generated by text ads in google search to purchase shares of google, eventually being able to obtain full ownership of google.