Answer & Explanation:Alternative art can be generally defined as artworks made outside the traditional media. Alternative mediaincludes
video, digital media, conceptual art, performance art, sound art, and
installations. Alternative art often asks us, as viewer to interact with
and sometimes complete the work of art and begs us to think beyond the
traditional notions of what constitutes art.For this assignment, you
are asked to interact with a work of digital, interactive art. Select
one or two of the artworks described below and then write a
one-and-a-half- to two-page (1.5-2) essay response to your experience
interacting with this digital work of art. Responses may be based in
personal opinion, but should address some combination of the following
questions.Which artwork did you select? How would you
describe the experience of interacting with this artwork? In your
opinion, what is the purpose of this specific artwork? Is it commenting
on an aspect of our contemporary lives? If so, what aspect and what is
it saying? How might you compare interacting with this artwork to other
activities you perform on the Internet (web-searches, social networking,
etc.)? What makes the site visited a work of art compared to those
other daily web-based activities? Has your opinion of what constitutes
art changed since the start of this class? How so?Your response must be typed no hand-written work will be accepted Times New Roman, 12-pt font, double-spaced.ARTWORKS YOU MAY SELE
CT FROMIñaki Bonillas, Words and Photos (2003) http://awp.diaart.org/bonillas/ (Links to an external site.)For
this Dia Artist Web Project commission, Bonillas is digitizing the
[photo] archive, while simultaneously creating an extensive index of
associated words that mirrors the image database. The relation between
these two levels unfolds as the visitor explores the possibilities of
matching text and image.Lisi Raskin, Warning Warum (2009) http://awp.diaart.org/raskin/ (Links to an external site.)For
her first web-based artwork, Warning Warum, Lisi Raskin presents
visitors with the ability to virtually detonate an atomic bomb at an
address of their choice. The mapping functionality included in Raskins
projectwas once available on the web as part of a PBS website for
the 1999 film Race for the Superbomb. The website still exists, but
the mapping function was removed post 9-11, a time which marked a shift
from ColdWar nuclear fears to the fears of nuclear bombs in the hands of terrorists.Lynn Hershman Leeson, Agent Ruby (2002) http://agentruby.sfmoma.org/ (Links to an external site.)An
artificial intelligent web agent that is shaped by and reflective of
encounters and adventures that it has with users, and will be seeded to
user servers through a site of origin or birth. Ruby chats with users,
remember users questions, ultimately be able to recognize their voice
and have moods and emotions. Her mood may also be affected directly by
web traffic.