final blog post.

The piece that I chose to look at for a final blog post is the work of Heather Delacruz Stevens, Danielle Johnson,Nathaniel Johnston, and Caitlin Peacher. In their work in the final project they explore retelling the story of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow. The quartet engage in updating the tired tale through the use of newer mediums such as digital mixed media and flash movie animations. The use of a time line by heather was something I found particularly interesting and stood out against the rest of the group. By interjecting a time line and allowing ore interaction with the audience the piece becomes more successful and has a few ore corelations to the history of web based art such as Olia Lialina's 1996 piece "My boyfriend came back from the war" a certain ammount of exploration is required to reach the full breadth of this website as well link

Ezra Johnson's Wrestling the blob Beast (1995-2009) link
holds a spot of recognition with works like Danielle's "dorothy"
the bold colors and distortion of shape (almost mannerist in nature) have a sort of kinship in the idea process as well as jeanne Dunning's Tom Thumb, Notes toward a case history link

this project I think relates to the Oz project as far as it's interaction and devices of narrative are concerned.


All in all the "Oz Project captured mt attention and was well executed. it engaged the viewer what more could you ask for in the field of vidual arts , a field where clutter is our biggest competitor.