Jessica's Digital Page

Here are a few digital art websites that caught my interest

World of Awe
by Yael Kanarek
I found this site about a year ago and was instantly drawn into the world. According to her artist statement, Kanarak is interested in the process of how individuals create and maintain a worldview, and so she has created a mysterious world where the traveler/viewer must piece together a narrative from fragmented bits of information.

Annotations
by Greg Ligon
Working with some of the same themes of identity and race, this work from the DIA Center is a digital photo album that the viewer can click through and discover hidden photographs and images along the way. Each image in the twenty-page album leads to a second or third layer -- a simple caption, other photographs, images of book covers, lists, narratives, a hand-written letter, and in a few instances, multiple page spreads -- plus, (towards the end of the album), audio clips of music, including the artist singing a capella or with songs from the 70s and 80s.

Wake
by Gary Simmons
For Wake, Simmons photographed nine dance spaces, each devoid of people and each shot in a style reminiscent of portraiture. These rooms range from ornate, baroque ballrooms to a single relatively austere auditorium. Simmons does not present them in their entirety: rather, each is programmed in such a way that sections of the image are revealed as the viewer passes a mouse across the screen. In what might be considered a visual metaphor for the act of remembering, as each fragment appears it begins immediately to fade, making it impossible to see the complete image at one time. Weddings, dances, and other special occasions that take place in venues like these, while sometimes monumental in our memories, in retrospect seems like just a flicker of time.