New Media Artist #3 Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang was commissioned to create the first piece of web-based artwork in the famous Guggenheim museum. Her creation Brandon, is an tribute that tells the story of Teena Brandon. Teena Brandon was born a female, but chose to undergo the transformation to live life as a man. For this choice she was raped and killed. Cheang's work is a website composed of images that depict the lifestyle and and the sentiments that led to her murder. The page is pretty cool and fun to mess around with. It loads as a blank white page, but as you move the mouse cursor over the page a grid of images appear. After all the spaces are filled in the images will change to different ones.

New Media Artist #2 Cornelia Sollfrank

After reading about Corneila Sollfrank, I think of her as sort a freedom fighter for female artists or a person who gives female artist a bad rep, according to how you look at it. Sollfrank is a cyberfeminist and while her pieces may not reflect her activeness in the movement some of her actions do. She took part in a competition for artwork that used the internet (for more than just presentation), but she took part as 200 different women from 7 countries. She created the pieces with a program she created that was similar to Napier's Shredder 1.0, but hers was more complex and truly made each piece stand alone. The purpose was to be prove that though there was excitement for so many women particpants none of the winners were female. A trend all too common due to sexism in these type of competition's. The idea behind her stunt was cool to me, but I was not impressed by the piece shown here.