Js and Internet Art

This week we answered some difficult questions centered around this idea of “what is art?”. Although it is difficult to say what exactly art is, I think that I can reflect for myself about what my own art is, and what it means. For example, I enjoy making things which are aesthetic and usually do not have a deeper meaning. My art is usually produced through crafts such as baking or cooking - that to me is an art form. As such, I think that art in a broad sense can usually not be defined, however, I feel like it is more valuable to categories types of art forms. For example, Deane (2019) speaks about internet art and typical features of its sub-categories. I would argue that internet art is art which utilises the internet to communicate or display its artwork. Therefore, I would argue that a website could in and of itself be an artwork - but perhaps this is a discussion for another post. We also spoke about the media aspects within artworks (technical, basic and qualified), which could help us to identify if our artwork could be considered internet artwork. Overall, I believe that art cannot be constrained to one definition, rather, we can only catagorise it into artworks which have similar features.

On the technical side, we covered some of the JavaScript fundamentals such as how to create functions, and the different types of variables and their advantages or disadvantages. Although these lectures were useful in learning how to create a JavaScript navigation bar, I still felt that I struggled with JavaScript and make my own functions without much guidance. I think that it was because I lacked the technical vocabulary to do it.

[1] DANAE (2019) ‘Net Art, Post-internet Art, New Aesthetics: The Fundamentals of Art on the Internet’, DIGITAL ART WEEKLY | Medium, 31 January