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The Interactive Culture of the Web |
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Michael Ruzicka CSM564 Fall 2004 Price |
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http://www.poets.org |
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Official
site for the Academy of American Poets. |
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Very extensive website listing poets of all
genres & historical periods. |
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Gives biographies for each poet and a
bibliography of their work. |
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Provides a search feature to search the site for
keywords or names. |
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Includes a free discussion forum on topics
relating to literature & poetry. |
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Features a searchable database for poetry events
across the nation. |
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My Notebook: |
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An interactive feature that lets the user create
their own notebook for the site. |
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Users must register to the site. Registration is always free. |
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Users can write poetry or take any notes to aid
in searching the site for future use. |
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Poets.org provides a listening booth for all
visitors. |
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The listening booth is a menu option at every
page of the website. |
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Users can choose from a list of poets who have
recorded themselves reading their poetry. |
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The readings have been encoded and can play
through whatever media player the user might have on their machine. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/ |
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The Times often features interactive multimedia
for current events. |
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Election 2004 and its results provided the Times
a great opportunity to showcase its online dexterity. |
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Here is one of many interactive maps provided to
freely registered users of the site. |
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The Times’ site requires users have Macromedia
Flash to utilize the interactive features. |
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Macromedia Flash is a free download. |
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Nytimes.com Video Coverage. |
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Featured stories of current event are often
accompanied by a narrated slide show or video. |
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The moving images are featured in a new window
as a supplement to the site. |
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The Interactive Electoral Map |
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The Times provided an interactive electoral map
since the start of the Democratic primaries. |
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The map could be manipulated in a variety of
ways to show endless possible outcomes. |
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Users are encouraged to roll over any state to
see current and past election results. |
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http://www.moca.org/index.php |
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The MOCA in Los Angeles, California provides
visitors to its website a tour of the collection from your computer. |
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Artists’ names are listed on the site as well as
upcoming openings for users to browse through. |
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The museum’s collection can be viewed in very
good quality through Macromedia Flash. |
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The site provides intuitive navigation through
the permanent and current collections. |
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Digital Interactive Art |
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The digital art gallery provides users the free
opportunity to interact with the variety of works on “display.” |
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Macromedia Flash and media players are needed to
view the works. |
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This gallery provides a glimpse into what the
future of art will look like with online multimedia. |
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Examples of the digital artistry to come. |
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The artist, Momus, created a Macromedia Flash
movie collage of artistic imagery entitled Suffusia: A Beautiful Life. (top image) |
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Cindy Bernard and Joseph Hammer created a cyber
world called Corridor in which the user can click into different rooms by
directing the mouse. The rooms
relay haunting noises and simple light imagery. The bottom image shows the map of the cyber environment they
created. |
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The following is a list of the featured pages
that include the multimedia explored in this project. |
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http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm |
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http://www.poets.org/login/login.cfm |
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http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm |
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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html |
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http://www.moca.org/museum/digital_gallery.php |
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Notes
