Channeling Aesthetics in the Digital Realm: Designing Virtual Homes for the Artists of Folkvine.org

Abstract

As escalating bandwidths and technologies expand the World Wide Web, media-rich web design offers new opportunities for scholarly discussion and presentation. A collaborative effort between a videographer, a web programmer, faculty members, and graduate and undergraduate students, F olkvine produced websites representative of four Florida artists while rethinking online scholarship. Appointed lead web designer, the culmination of my research rests in my designs profiling the lives and work of four Florida artists: the painter and farmer, Ruby C. Williams, the Hawaiian quilter, Ginger LaVoie, the clown shoemakers, Wayne and Marty Scott, and the late circus historian, clown, and miniature circus creator, Diamond Jim Parker.

Exploring the various perspectives from which we could virtually exhibit the artists, we chose to create the sites as a reflection and extension of the artists' lives and work. In order to fulfill this goal, I attempted to act as a neutral conduit through which the artists' aesthetics could pass into the digital realm. As an artist myself, I consider how I approached this channeling and how it in turn affected my aesthetic notions according to three major themes in digital art: virtual identity, space, and home.

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Thesis Completion

2004

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Congdon, Kristin G.

Degree

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Degree Program

Art

Subjects

Arts and Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic; Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Sciences; Web sites -- Design

Format

Print

Identifier

DP0021857

Language

English

Access Status

Open Access

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Document Type

Honors in the Major Thesis

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