The Wake

Much of the work that has been presented so far at Emerging Digerati has been web-based. If you’re like me, you’ll spend the weekend in your jammies, digging these phat websites instead of reading your fat Mass Communications Law textbook.

• www.digidiva.net/uc/old/UnoffComm
In her project titled “Unofficial Communication,” Collette Gaiter explores those unsanctioned, often unsigned messages that we often walk past because we don’t ascribe authority to the communicator. “Not all unofficial communication is illegal. However, it is the ubiquitous illegal urban graffiti that gets the most attention,” Gaiter writes.

• www.ruinedeye.com
Art graduate student Kessie Wheelock’s work is presented on this extensive website. It includes texts and images on the theme of the human eye, as well as The Museum of Make-Believe, which showcases personal objects that belonged to fairy-tale characters with explanations of the research and preservation of the artifacts.

• www.abinadimeza.net
This site includes photos of artwork, and excerpts of video projects from art graduate student Abinadi Meza.

• www.tc.umn.edu/~aran0013
Interactive photography? What’s that? Check it out.

• www.movielens.umn.edu
Computer science graduate students Tony Lam and Mamun Rashid designed this website, where you rate movies you’ve seen and it tells you which new movies you’d like. I don’t know exactly how it works, but the more you use it, the more accurate it is. I tried it. It works. It’s creepy.