Saturday, December 5, 2009





The individual stages of this project reminds me a great deal of A Visitor's Guide to London by Heath Bunting, 1995. Like the London guide, the work is in black and white and takes the various cityscapes and filters them down to a more cartoon-like appearance. This methodology works well with the cartoonish characters of the piece which could look out of place in a more photorealistic space. I'm not sure if the London guide was used as a template for the project or not but it seems to me it must have been.

the final group portion reminds me of Maja Balevic's "I Wish I Was Born In a Hollywood Movie" (2006) because of the way the windows (or in this case thought bubbles) overlap, stack on top of each other, but can be closed as desired. The theme is not the same, there is no disparity between real and perceived worlds, but the style is very similar.

A few net.art pieces use avatars to tell a narrative, as we were supposed to for this project. Zombie and Mummy from Olia Liliana and Dragan Espenschied (2002) for instance uses avatars in a comic format. This project is a bit more abstract than that, but as with the other two works, the stylistic similarity remains even if the purpose doesn't.

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