I have come across a few websites that have an interesting array of internet/net-art projects which deal with some interesting theoretical concepts as well as adopt a unique aesthetic style:
http://www.diaart.org/artist_web_projects
and http://www.net-art.org/?page=1
The project on the DIA art website that stood out to me was 'I Wish I was Born In A Hollywood Movie by Maja Bajevic (2006). The Flash-based website uses images of an array of locations an artists has photographed that run counter to Hollywood's idealised 'reality'. Bajevic uses pop-up windows which with each subsequent links brings up another image of this 'bleak' reality. She does this by using images of run-down motels, staircases, streets and so on.
Through this suggests that however far removed Hollywoods reality it 'infiltrate[s] on various levels to influence our desires or expectations.' and that those in situations such as what is displayed in the pop-up windows, who may have no chance of getting out of that situation, are ever wanting to live a hollywood movie which offers an idealised lifestyle. (Maja Bajevic Intro)
Moreover the style of this project is fragmented and over-laying which I would like to possibly replicate when exploring how media images only represent a fragmented and distorted view of 'reality'.
Also after reading the introduction on this particular artist she has also dealt with the boundaries between the public and the private, and how images of war invite the public into the private. This could be something I deal with when I explore the proliferation of the media into our everyday lives.
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