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1998 MAR 27
VISIBLE/IN
TED WARNELL
In these early days
on the World Wide Web, artists are exploring capabilities of
the new media to learn as much as possible. To be expected, it
is a good and necessary effort at this time (documented
for history here in Zn).
This week it is a pleasure to feature two works by artist Tina
LaPorta, whose installations for the Web are at once exploratory
and transcendent of their existence in cyberspace. Here are works
on the cutting-edge of new media technology -- and --
works of art.
"Passing through media through structure and time.
Time which unfolds simultaneously through multiple frames
on multiple pages. Time -- passing through our fingers.
Moving through pixels and lines, text and sound; the shape
of the loop consumes the line."
- from Traces
Tina LaPorta
is a multimedia artist and teacher whose works explore the very
latest audio and video capabilities on the Web, but her works
involve more than just technology.
More than the technologies they employ, Tina's works explore
notions of time and space, notions of connecting with her
audience via technology. Her creative realization of these
ideas is better experienced than described, but I would say
the result is remarkable in my eye and mind -- magical
and mysterious and marvelous -- real art.
"Moving beyond the threshold which divides the space
between the real and the imaginary -- the physical and
the virtual. Dispersed and projecting: I immerse myself and
become an(other)."
- from Shifting
To move a work
beyond media, mechanics, and techniques employed in creation of
the work is a goal of many artists, and Tina shows us by her very
beautiful Web installations Traces and Shifting the
goal is attainable.
Traces
wintermute.aec.at/traces/index.html
Austria
Shifting
www.users.interport.net/~laporta/
USA
A magical place
of time and space, and a marvelous example of fine art in
the new media that is the Web. Thank you, Tina.
These works require browser plug-ins for QuickTime
and Shockwave. You will find links to the download sites
in Zn Web: Zoots, and in Zn Resources.
Image clip and quoted texts from the Web site of
the artist. Used by permission.
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