Week 2 Zapata Reading

How has the emergence of the internet and graphic art brought a new form of accessibility for the public, how do artists in the stages of technological emergence of web 1.0 and web 2.0 differ in the form of accessibility? 

    Web 1.0 was defined as a passive form of internet interaction where users would view and download content, yet this explosion of the web allowed artists to create web pages for themselves and their works to be more accessible to the general public. Artist Garcia in 1997 made this new form of the artist web page accessible to consumers by adding interactive features in her digital piece Glass House. In this digital showcase, Garcia used the expression “Mi Casa es Su Casa” to give a guided tour of her home through photos which express the inner identity conflict she had with being Mexican American who is a conflict with maintaining her cultural identity and not assimilating to American culture. These questions which Garcia poses at the end of her house tour may seem daunting but are kept digestible as Garcia through her tour gives photographs that express her self impositions and vulnerabilities and relates with viewers through images such as the chancla. 

Web 2.0. this internet emergence differed from web 1.0 form as it brought interaction with web user which is specifically connected to the social network boom. Web 2.0 version of accessibility through social networks allowed artistic sharing and collectivization between social justice movements, for example in 2013 the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement emerged as a reaction to the injustice and brutality the African American community was facing Alice Garza Patrice Kahn Cullors and Opal Tometi, created an online space to mobilize the BLM movement. Artist Oree Originol contributed to this online BLM movement through his creation of Justice For our Lives in which he focused on creating portraits of individuals who had lost their lives to police brutality and with social media was able to widely distribute his digital portraits