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Presented 15 Black women that attended Afropunk with colour swatches and questioned its representation of their mental health, aura, etc. to bring you #COURSEOFCOLOUR:

STUDIO THEORY x KAHKTI S/S 2017

Investigate: Standards based web programming Discuss process, impact, and provide examples in a blog post

Web standards are formal standards and specifications of web based programing. The term relates to best practice of net programing. It is a standardization of best practice in web design and programming. It is a constantly changing set of rules that evolve over time as technology changes. For this reason web standards can be divided into to two catagories, those under development and those which are finalised.

Independant web standards and specifications effect the development of websites and webservices; considerations include interoperability, accessablitiy and useablity.

When a website has Valid CSS, Java script and HTML it usally is classed as complying with web standards (their are some exceptions.)

Web standards are published by the following orgainisations:

Recommendations published by the World Wide Web Constortium  (W3C)

Internet standards (STD) documents published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Request for comments (RFC) documents published by the Internet Engineering Task Force

Standards published by theInternational organizartion for standardization (ISO)

Standards published by Ecma International (formerly ECMA)

The Unicode Standard and various Unicode Technical Reports (UTRs) published by the Unicode Consortium

Name and number registries maintained by the internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

links:

http://www.w3.org/

http://www.ietf.org/

http://www.webstandards.org/

http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Investigate: Contemporary Internet Artist of your choosing Discuss process, impact, and provide examples in a blog post

Mark Amerika

Mark Amerika is a "remix" artist who remixes and mashes up, art and culture into new forms of art. He has written several books, created installations and video pieces as well as creating and pioneering new work in Internet art.

Grammatron (1997)

 Grammatron experimented with things that were new and exciting in the Internet at the time such as hypertext narrative and digital cinema. It was a part in a trilogy also including PHON:E:ME and FILMTEXT. Grammatron is a virtual writing machine, it contains over 1100 text spaces, 2000 links, more than 40 mins of original soundtrack and a variety of animated and other visual content. It questions the nature of a book based narrative in the not too distant future.

The Grammatron received acclaim world wide and has been written about in publications such as The New York Times, The Australian, The Guardian and many other publications.

PHON:E:ME (1999)

PHON:E:ME is the second part in the net.art trilogy, it is a concept album made from mp3s which was commissioned for the Walker Art Centre. The sounds used sound like somewhere between a modern meditation and some kind of subliminal message/brainwashing. PHON:E:ME explored multi-linear narrative though sound and hypertext. PHON:E:ME was nominated for the prestigious International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Award in 2000.

FILMTEXT

FILMTEXT is a combination of Internet art, gallery installation, interactive narrative (amongst other things). The work was premiered at Mark Amerika's How to be an internet artist. Filmtext explores the inter-relationships between modern media such as net culture, games and digital narrative.

CODEWORK(2005)

Is an installation that includes projection and surround sound. It is based around two characters an artificial intelligence; the "Digital Thoughtographer" and a woman (who is a disembodied voice).

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