Space and Time

Identity and Net realities

Digital critique and parody

Interactive Net Art

SPACE AND TIME project guidelines.

The Digital Visions committee is currently accepting submissions for net-art works related to “time and space.” Successful “time and space” artworks will take on a navigational or interactive interface, and will lead the viewer through a path which comments specifically on time and space.

Space and time can be considered interrelated: time being the measured period in which an action exists or continues, succeeding from past through present to future, and space being the place where these actions occur. The advancement of digital technology, and thus Net Art, has directly affected these two elements within our world. With reference/influence to at least one specific example of Net Art, create your own commentary on how our continuously growing technical world has affected, positively or negatively our surroundingsand/or culture:

How does the artist use and interact with time and space? The work must fall under the category of Net Art (made to function on the Internet) and must be non-linear (include a navigational or interactive element of choice
for the viewer).

For submissions concerning 'space' as a possible conceptual framework or element in the works, it would be of interest to see pieces that may apply a literal definition of space as a 'three-dimensional region in which all matter exists.'

For a more abstract, philosophical approach, perhaps the notion of an absence of space (i.e. the space that exists between words) and how this might apply to the 'virtual territory' and how one moves through this territory. With this in
mind, it would be interesting to see works that acknowledge the idea of a controlled space that is provided for a particular purpose and/or perhaps the work might comment on how internet/net art might play a part in subverting the
dominant paradigms/definitions of the nature of location/space/geography online.

The Digital Visions committee would also like to see works that may comment on the convergence between space and time, as in works that deal with a period or suspension of space/time and how this might describe or expand the potential of information. On a more personal level, the notion of sufficient freedom from external pressure that enables one to develop or explore one's needs, interests and individuality – in other words a corporeal or ephemeral space provided by the online experience.