I found chapter 2 of Rachel Green’s internet art to be very interesting. To be honest, I am not sure which two projects I find the most interesting. They were all quite unique and entertaining in their use of different means of subverting, adapting, or appropriating existing forms of mass media or network culture.
I liked the idea of The Web Stalker. It is a software application that allowes the user to re-visualize the web. I had known about it in 1997 as, at the time I was actually quite actively involved in a few web-based projects and I definitely would appreciated both the message behind it, as well as Fuller’s essay. This project is interesting because it re-vamps something that has become standard in our daily lives. With The Web Stalker, you aren't looking at the web via a commercial browser and therefore gain an unexpected and interesting alternate perspective.
The concept and implementation of DEEP ASCII (1998) was throughly entertaining. I am old enough to remember ASCII long before it was relegated to outdated chain letters. The artists were quite playful with its utilization in DEEP ASCII. The artists used two groundbreaking elements of the entertainment industry and incorporated them into an installation piece. I really see this as something Marcel Duchamp would revel in. It utilizes something that is generally considered taboo and questions the way you look at it. I think, in many ways, it is the modern version of “fountain”.
Additionally, I linked the page I worked on for my Web-Fundamentals course yesterday so that you can at least see what I’m playing with. Aesthetically it isn’t all that I had ever dreamed of, but it did demonstrate proficiency with text, tables, and backgrounds which was the assignment.