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The Banner Art Collective was a conceptual art piece that was an active archive of banners from 2001 to 2007. It is less frequently updated now, but still accepts submissions. Thanks to all the net.artists that have contributed over the years. |
Posted by Brandon - 23:05, 01/06/09 |
For World Aids Day, Viewropa has created a banner ad that only is presented on 1 of 157 page views--highlighting the fact that 1 out of every 157 people have AIDS. |
Posted by Brandon - 3:04, 01/12/04 |
The bannerart project was mentioned in Rachel Greene's book Internet Art, an introduction to net.art. The book highlighted Millie Niss's rectangular banner "Self Help" from our collection. Congratulations, Millie! |
Posted by Brandon - 23:17, 20/11/04 |
Bannerart is currently taking part in the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum's web biennial, International Bi-annual Contemporary Art Exhibition for the World Wide Web. |
Posted by Garrett - 21:39, 27/06/03 |
Friday the 20th of June was a good day in the states as it has been now dubbed "Gif Liberation Day" the BBC reports the following...
"The patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm is set to expire in the US on Friday. It also expires in Europe, Canada and Japan in June of 2004."
The patent lodged by Unisys in 1994 simply meant that all applications creating gif format files, this includes photoshop etc but also all scripts such as php using the GD library, had to pay licensing fees to Unisys.
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Posted by Garrett - 19:58, 23/06/03 |
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The newest banner, "Holly and Hazel," was added at 18:59 on 29/05/09 by Storm Shadowdragon.
Total number of banners in the collection: 183. |
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The Banner Art Collective (http://www.bannerart.org/) creates, collects, and distributes net.art and poetry within the limitations and context of web advertisements.
Most view net advertising as a necessary evil. But creating an effective ad requires a strict adherence to voluntary standards that strictly control both the pixel and file size and limit the interactive behaviors of the ad. Designers must produce work that will be viewed in a variety of contexts on a variety of pages, and they must create an ad that uses its position within the marginalia of a webpage to its advantage. In addition, ad designers must be hyperaware of accessibility issues--an unviewable ad is a dead ad.
By creating and distributing art within the limitations of WWW advertising, net.artists are forced to work under stringent rules. In that regard, banner art follows in a historical tradition of working against and within the limitations of a strict, sometimes arbitrary, form. In exploring this form, they also explore the marginalization of net.art; in banner art, this marginalization is quite literal.
Banner art also forces viewers into a position of empowerment; as they discover banner art, they will become aware of the both the pervasion and possibilities of advertising space on the web, experience new art in new contexts, and be granted a sort of patron status, as they can host on their own websites work they find compelling. |
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