week 2 S2

identity sites
photography & ID
in your room/mind as ID
ID & celebs & art
lumiere & photo ID

The online community frequently asks to what is “identity,” what is “digital identity,” and whether we can have several identities or only one, etc. I feel that we need to look at the differences, as is usually perceived between personality vs identity - they are often mistakenly are conflated (combined).

Identity: set of attributes that allow to recognize a person or set of persons as unique or distinct. Key variables: distinction, uniqueness.
Personality: this refers to a type or characteristic of behavior and the psychological classification of different types of individuals.

define identity: (wikipedia does it well) or internet persona is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. Although some people prefer to use their real names online, most Internet users prefer to be anonymous, identifying thru pseudonyms, which reveal a little of their identies.

In some online contexts, including Internet forums, messaging, and multiplayer online games, users can represent themselves visually by choosing an avatar... As other users interact with an online identity, a reputation develops.
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This week: intro to (x)html; intro to Dreamweaver CS5; narrative vs multi-dimensionality in sites; identity through fotos 

I With 4-5 students: do image on phone and collage in photoshop exercise. 

 

LINK: face of tmw - a cute site that claims to be"a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity."

SEE the USYD composite face. Can you see yourself in this? Will we go the same way as say Istanbul where the east meets the west in a face/identity that has morphed into a composite of "Asia" and "western" face? Is Australia the ultimate potential composite? 

We may do an exercise where I get all of us to take a foto/portrait of another person in the class and we attempt a composite for a male and female.. upload it.

For this week depending on time - or next week if not (Each student is to present a site /(v)blog or some other online experiment that engages them – as an example of an art form or design - how it contributes to the development of the internet and identifying possibilities for contemporary art/design practice. This will followed up by a short report due in the final week – posted on blog
TO: to a group of other students (max 3 in group)
LOOK at : tomato.uk or similar. Please do NOT go for larger corporate sites. Most of us know them anyway. (nike etc). I suggest you research the link on the right of this blog to gain an idea of possibilities. 

Research report: based on your website research presentation given wk 3/4. Report 600 words as part of blog/diary. You will need to consider: a. whether it falls into design and/or art; b. why it does so; c. how it relates to other art/design forms on the web. 
and finally .. one past student blog: sarah blog