Featured image: Rachel Ryle, January 1 2019, Happy New Year from New York…, Instagram, viewed 1 May 2019, <https://www.instagram.com/p/BsER6KdFVWx/>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Rachel Ryle. Ryle is a self-taught artist, illustrator and animator who was able to turn her hobby into a full time job and uses […]
Room With A View – 22 April 2019
Featured image: Murad Osmann, August 20 2018, #FollowMeTo romantic Paris…, Instagram, viewed 16 April 2019, <instagram.com/p/Bmr7eH0nyxQ>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Murad Osmann and his Instagram account name is @muradosmann. Osmann first started this Instagram account in July 2011, originally posting ordinary location photos with inbuilt Instagram filters, but it wasn’t […]
Featured image: Smithsonian American Art Museum 1998, Megatron Matrix, photograph, viewed 7 April 2019, <https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/megatronmatrix-36486>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Nam June Paik. He was a Korean American artist and is considered to be the founder and ‘Father of video art’. After immigrating to New York, Paik continued with […]
Featured image: Henri-Cartier Bresson 1961, Sifnos, Greece, photograph, viewed 2 April 2019, <https://collections.artsmia.org/art/99751/sifnos-greece-henri-cartier-bresson>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? Henri-Cartier Bresson was a photographer, born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France. Bresson always had a fascination for painting and drawing, particularly he was interested in surrealism. Bresson started his photography career in the early 1930s after discovering […]
This week was all about social media. One of this weeks reading was Understanding New Media from Eugenia Siapera (2013). In this text Siapera defines new media and explains why it is a more useful term than digital or online media. Siapera defines new media as including “attributes such as digital, online and others as well […]
I guess we never really stop and pay much attention to how we use the objects in our everyday lives. Often we take advantage of the design of the objects we use whether they are simple, such as a door, or whether there is a more complex design behind our social media sites. Which made […]
In week two of networked media we discussed networks. This is a key aspect for our course’s overall prompt which is: How do the affordances of Instagram affect the way photos and videos are authored, published and distributed in the network? The Internet and the web are interconnected terms but there is still a difference […]
I was really interested in studying networked media as it is becoming more and more prominent in today’s society. Already I am constantly networked just via having my own smartphone and casually flicking through social media, or even as I am writing this blog. Going through the readings and lectures we are already analysing this […]
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