Tagged: web

experimenting with coding

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This coding workshop introduced me to creating website content and layouts from scratch, using html and CSS coding to alter the appearance of online pages.

Although the content I created was experimental and basic, it taught me the key formulas to alter the appearance of text, links and graphics online, and how I could develop these skills further to personalise my website design in the future.

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(CSS documents change the appearance of the content, including font family and colour as well as links, hover, boxes and page width.)

using a survey to collect submissions

I created an online survey titled ‘tell us your dating horror stories‘ so that we could collect submissions for our magazine based around people’s interesting, funny or embarrassing first date or internet dating experiences. The survey had an option to leave your name or leave the submission anonymous. We received over 40 submissions and after narrowing them down have decided these will form part of our main feature article for the first issue, clearly summarising what our issue wants to talk about and commenting on young people’s use of social media to find potential relationships.

promotion of campaign: social media

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After creating my campaign manifesto and lookbook I looked at how the brand would communicate and promote these ideas – Shrimps already has a fairly strong social media presence so I looked at utilising these platforms more effectively to promote the rebrand. I created mock-ups of the label’s Twitter and Instagram accounts to give an idea of how this would work, e.g. using a lookbook image as a header on Twitter, retweeting articles and what others are saying about the campaign, and using the #shrimpsxwomankind hashtag for the charity t-shirts.

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molly soda: “from my bedroom to yours”

To kick off my research for this project, I visited Molly Soda’s solo exhibition at Annka Kultys gallery. Molly Soda is an internet artist whose work I was familiar with already, but her style fits nicely into the concept I am looking at for this module. Molly’s work consists of videos, gifs and New Hive-created digital pieces.

All the works were displayed on tablets, laptops, iphones or mounted screens around the room, and the gallery space was filled with pink beanbags and potted plants to create a comfortable atmosphere to make visitors feel like they have been invited into the artist’s bedroom.

Each piece of digital work was for sale and once bought could be transferred onto an embellished USB memory stick.

I love the idea of linking our use of the internet as a diary with the concept of teen girls’ bedrooms and what a private space that is – a great contrast with our publicised thoughts and feelings on social media.

drawing & interaction: starting point

As my starting point for AD138, I selected a piece of music by Holly Herndon which I was introduced to in a lecture several weeks ago. Holly Herndon composes her music mainly via her laptop, using digital programmes and methods to create computer-based work.

Her single ‘Chorus’ that I chose for my starting point ‘sampled her browsing experience on the internet’ by incorporating sounds taken from the web – I was drawn to this idea because I think its  a really unique and interesting way of making music and commenting on how much of our lives are spent online and how attached we now find ourselves to the internet.