A public course archive on net art, animated GIFs, digital art and creative technology, published by Ryan Seslow on the CUNY Academic Commons since 2017. This page is an index. Every link goes to the work at its source.
Sharing this one with the NET-ART and CUNY Commons community, because underneath the build it is a teaching question: what happens to a course archive after it stops being a semester and starts being a body of work? Nine years of this site is now indexed and findable, by people…
NET-ART has been running here since 2017. As of August 2026 it holds 601 posts and pages, roughly 104,314 words, spanning nine years of assignments, tutorials, exhibitions, tool lists and writing about making art in the browser. That is a lot to walk through one post at a time…
Sharing this with the NET-ART and CUNY Commons community because, underneath the build, it is a teaching question: what becomes possible when you can point AI at your own work, or a whole course, and search it, see it, and talk back to it, locally and for free? There is a…
Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 6/10/26 Over the past week I’ve been working on something that started as a technical experiment and turned into one of the more interesting investigations I’ve done in years. The original idea…
NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery 6-5-2026 Since 2017, the NET-ART website here on the CUNY Academic Commons has grown into a substantial collection of teaching materials, tutorials, art works, software resources, project ideas, assignments, technology references…
Required Reading and Resource Familiarity Updated June 5th 2026 – (the page itself is here) Welcome back to yet another major update to the Net-Art website.. your summer reading has been assigned. This is a living list. Please help us add to it! Resources are grouped by…
The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, designers, educators, and digital explorers! A year ago I published a list of free creative tools that could help artists and creators like you to experiment with digital media…
RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1 – Reconstructed Spatial Archive: 2013–2026 Originally created in my studio environment in 2013, these large-scale paintings, collage works, and sculptural forms existed for years primarily as compressed physical artifacts living inside an active…
AREMES HQ, Brooklyn, May 25th 2026 Today I spent nearly an entire day inside Terminal on my macOS building an experimental semantic archive intelligence system around my lifelong WordPress media library. This was raw terminal-based systems building in collaboration with my…
A syllabus written in 2017 cannot describe a practice in 2026. The web reads itself now. AI sits in the studio. Agents move through the network buying and licensing work without human hands on either end. Museums publish their collections as queryable data. The terminal has…
It started with a simple question: where are all my Adobe Dimension files? https://ryanseslow.github.io/peekable/peekable.html I have been making work digitally for over three decades, across a lot of different software, a lot of different platforms, a lot of different machines…
It started with a simple question. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a public API on GitHub, and in February of 2026 the Met shared that they had released 3D models. I wanted to know how deep the open access rabbit hole actually went. What I found over the next several hours…
Expanding Painting into Mixed Reality Environments Over the past several days I have been transforming my studio into a growing mixed reality painting environment using virtual reality tools, spatial drawing systems, and immersive installation workflows. What began as flat…
Published: April 4, 2026 Category: AREMES / Art & Technology There is a page live right now at aremes-enterprises.com/aremes-living-canvas that does something really fun, creative and compelling. It is not a portfolio. It is not a slideshow. It is not a gallery.. wait.. or is…
On March 25, 2026, something quietly historic happened on my website ryanseslow.com I wanted to share with my CUNY / Commons community. I am both incredibly excited, scared, curious and terrified of AI. That being said, I am also a deaf /hard of hearing person / artist who has…
From Archive to Agent: Making Creative Work Machine-Readable and AI-Accessible Over the past several days, I have been working on transforming my personal archive into something fundamentally different from a traditional website or portfolio. I took an existing body of work…
Digital Filters & Syntax Forms: Visual Experiments from 2019–2025 ***I recently published a new blog post on my main site that showcases a body of digital illustrations created between 2019–2025. These works emerged from teaching sessions, daily experiments, and ongoing studio…
NET-ART’s Rolling Open Call for Submissions! It’s that time again — and it’s bigger than ever! The NET-ART Open Call is now officially live and accepting submissions on a rolling basis. This is your invitation to create, experiment, and share your work with a global audience…
The Ultimate Free Digital Art & Creation Tools List (2025 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, and digital explorers! As part of refreshing and expanding the resources at The NET-ART Website, I’m excited to share this updated collection of free digital tools you…
Net Art 2.0: Expanding Creativity Through AI and Open Access If you’ve found your way here, welcome! You’re stepping into a platform that’s always been about more than just “art.” When I first created Net-Art as an Open Education Resource for the CUNY Academic Commons, it was…
Assignment Title: Keeper of Crossroads – Reimagining Analog and Digital Fusion Assignment Introduction: Every so often, an artwork finds a way to call itself back into your life. While traveling and reflecting on a new chapter of growth, I stumbled across an image from my…
My First VR Gallery: A New Portal Opens Over the last few years, I’ve been experimenting with VR and something that feels like a return to a truth I’ve always known: Art wants to live in worlds, not just walls. Using a platform called OnCyber, I built my very first VR gallery…
Back again with another lil’ series of 2D wall relief paper cut-out forms. Both of the pieces below follow the same process and technique. Im really happy with the process and outcomes. Im working on animating them as we speak. I’ll add them to this post later, so be sure to…
Two Decades of Teaching, A Reflection Begins.. It is time to tell the stories, the insights, ups, downs and all around experiences, 20 years of college teaching art & design.. Let us begin this series of posts with the most profound and ongoing metaphor, shall we? Recently, I…
Exploring Analog, Digital & Ai Mediums in Art: Layered Image Hacks from Old Slide Libraries As an artist, I’m always seeking new ways to create and communicate through visual imagery. In today’s technology-driven world, there are endless ways to be experimental, combining…
7 Tips for Cultivating Empathy and Community in Your College Classroom Hey fellow educators (& Beyond)! We are now flowing into week #5 of the Spring 2023 semester -> a belated welcome back! While there’s aways a lot to catch up on, let’s keep reminding ourselves of the power of…
Loving Adobe Fresco – New Drawings in 2023 I have been getting busy with Adobe Fresco. (Fresco is FREE by the way!) I admit it, I love digital drawing! If you are an artist that is making a transition from analog materials into the digital world, then look no further than Adobe…
“The Agent of Ascension”, 2022, Digital Illustration / Photo hybrid Situations, Scenes & Circumstances Im excited to share a growing body of work that revolves around the idea of reality perception. Particularly, through the use of an environment. It happens via an existing…
The NET-Art Website is pleased to share: “Scott Rummler – Frequency Based Art” “Artist makes painting that can’t be photographed, breaks blockchain.” Scott Rummler has developed a frequency-based painting style that breaks with the major concepts underlying visual art and…
AN OCEAN IN YOUR SKY “An Ocean in Your Sky” Animated Video, 2022, by Ryan Seslow –> VIEW THE FULL ONLINE EXHIBITION HERE <– A story about change.. We will all face times in our lives where we must shed a role, identity and perception of ourself that we no longer are.. Perhaps…
It’s that time Again! The NET-ART OPEN-CALL for Submissions continues this semester! FALL 2023 – Spring 2024 Edition What does this mean? What is NET-ART on the Commons? The NET-ART 2023 – 2024 academic calendar is now accepting submissions on a rolling proposal basis in the…
A New Sketchbook Has Been Completed, Let’s Tour It! Well, here we are in the summer of 2022! Classes are now over, and its time to catch up on some “other-ness.” The category of “other-ness” can mean a lot of things for sure.. like redesigning this website and updating my brand…
“Exploring Digital Art and Design on the Commons: Techniques and Applications for the Classroom and Beyond” Wednesday, May 11th 2022 – 11am – 12:30pm Welcome! This presentation is for the CUNY GC / Teaching & Learning Center’s Open & Digital Pedagogy Wednesday Workshops Series…
Caption-Less Abstraction, Another Statement.. “Caption-Less Abstraction, Another Statement..” is new looping video art work by Ryan Seslow. The piece is a visual statement, expression and commentary on the continued lack of accessibility and inclusion that Deaf and Hard of…
“The Byproducts of Twenty Twenty One” 2021, Digital Illustration / Poster – (click the image to enlarge) The Byproducts Poster of Twenty Twenty One.. (originally posted to ryanseslow.com but there is context here. Publishing this here will publicly hold me accountable to turn…
A Happy New Year to You and Yours! Welcome to the Spring Semester, 2022! Allow me to introduce my first post of the new year: “Creative Fun for the NEW Commons Website!” That’s right, the commons has launched its long awaited update! Its awesome! Have you checked it out yet?…
“The Legacy & Preservation of an Original Idea” 2021, Digital Illustration & Animated GIF by Ryan Seslow A series of two new art-works, 1 animated and 1 static.. its time for a another reactive / reflective writing assignment. Let us view and reflect upon the art work below. The…
A new post on process reflection through blogging. The best teacher I have ever known is the “inner-one” that allows a time for reflection as it wiggles through its narrative from the inside outward. Here is my take and example. December, late 2021 Back at it. The saga…
Metrics of Time, Circa 2015 – 2021 A Reflection from 3D to JPEG.. Ryan Seslow / 2021 (This post was originally published on my personal website on 11/29/21 but I believes that it serves as an example that can benefit our Digital Storytelling community here across CUNY. Im a big…
“A Metaphor, A Reminder”, 2021, Digital Illustration A Metaphor, A Reminder is a new digital illustration that brings together an array of peculiar imagery. Does it not? What do you experience? Are they logos? Icons? Glyphs? Pictograms? Symbols? A sheep in wolf’s clothing?…
The Communication Game – 2021 – Animation Duration – 00:16 (set to loop), Size: 1080px X 720px “The Communication Game” is a new animation by Ryan Seslow. Derived from an ongoing frustration with communication, accessibility and technology, the animation asserts itself through…
Promotional Fun with Vintage Design This post is an adaptation from my personal website, however, it fits in here perfectly if you are looking to explore some new design projects with your class(es) or even for yourself. I used myself as the example, haha, what fun! <enter Ryan>…
Until You Write it Down – A Class Exercise – (feel free to tweak and alter this to meet your courses needs) I have been thinking a lot about how our goals, dreams, desires and aspirations become the actual physical “objects, things, situations and accomplishments” that we…
Hello Everyone! September is Deaf Awareness Month! Here are some things that you can do to help spread Deaf awareness at your campus, in your department, in your school, classroom, work place, community and beyond. This post has context. I’m a Deaf and Hard of Hearing digital…
“The Seamless Linear Loop of Our Collective Level of Patience, a Visualization for Context” 2021 Animated GIF Kindness goes a long way. We can always choose to be kind. This transcends into being patient as well.. do the math
Welcome Back! Obviously there is a lot to say and catch up on, but first and foremost, a reminder of Empathy. I would like to ask my fellow teaching colleagues far and wide to consider this information as you begin teaching your courses again this fall. Our students, colleagues…
Hello NET-ART’r’s & Commons Community! We are taking a little summer break for the next few weeks. I promise that we will be back soon with many NEW surprises full of usefulness! Much good energy to all! Don’t hesitate to stay in touch :)) {.net-art;} rseslow@york.cuny.edu
A Drama in Monotones, The Tutorial Early June, 2021, A new series of Digital Illustrations & Animated GIFs (This post is an adaptation from my personal website, it has context here as it serves as an example and prompt for reflective writing about one’s process. How may you turn…
“A Subtle Drama in Monotones, Kinda” 2021, Animated GIF
mmm.page Creative Awesomeness Ah, the speed and the beauty of the Internet! The Internet will always find out, and the Internet will compel you to share! Less than a week ago I was “woke” to mmm.page by my fellow colleague, collaborator, mentor and friend; MBS, aka Michael…
Waking Accessibility Awareness… Works by Ryan Seslow – 2021 This new body of digital illustration, animated GIFs and animated video is a series of reactions and expressions that address the continued lack of Accessibility and Inclusion in our 2021 reality. The series is a…
“End of the Semester Portal / Doorway Prompt” 2021, Animated GIF A digital metaphor to help you walk through the commencement of the spring 2021 semester.. Look deep into the animated loop, allow yourself to step through the threshold.
Welcome to the The “From My Window & Other Spaces” Workshop Many thanks to my host, Nanda for the invitation! My name is Ryan Seslow, nice to meet you! Lets talk a little bit about Creativity, Immediacy and Intuition: Creativity is.. Immediacy is.. Intuition is.. In what order…
The Transcendent Energy of Play in the Classroom This post coincides with my guest talk on Monday 5/3/21 with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy course. Welcome! Many thanks to Luke & Lisa, and the ITP students for having me! I thought that writing a blog post here would be…
An Agent of Accountability – A Digital Storytelling Prompt *Assignment prompt – Create and apply digital imagery to exercise, express and extend a metaphor (this post is my example) <begin-transmission> An agent has manifested from with-in you. You are fully responsible for…
Ink Jet Printer Print Remixing in the Studio Well, its April now.. Been at it again.. those tensions between wanting to make more digital art work versus making more analog based art work. Its weird to use the word “analog” instead of “applied” but I guess they are really…
The GIF’ing of Picasso, Iteration III, 2021 Remix, Animated GIF
The Word “Break” is in “Spring-Break” – March 2021 Its been a heck of a year.. here we are 1 year later from when the Covid-19 pandemic caused mass lock downs here in NYC and far far far beyond. Im not yet writing this from a “post” Covid reality.. but it is late March 2021 …
Studio Musings & the Digital Versus the Analog – 2021, Studio Shot Tensions are running high here at the Brooklyn studio again.. Im torn between the analog and digital, the “next new” and the “past nostalgia”! They say; “Reflect, Reflect You Must” and we do, and we default to…
“Self-Portrait Selections of a Frozen Selection”, 2021, Digital Image Manipulation
Xeroxed, (A Metaphoric Looping Confrontation..) The Explanation Post 2020, animated GIF, blog post excerpt, full browser page GIF and video embed. Welcome back, if you previously had an intervention with this blog post then you know that it will have rolled you to a full screen…
“Linear Expansions, A Continuum of Line & Form”, 2021, Work in Progress, A Cut Paper Wall Relief. Im excited to share the progress and process of this new series of paper cut-outs. The forms are arranged directly onto the brick wall in my studio and live there as the piece…
Work in progress on a series – “Linear Expansions, A Continuum of Form”, 2021, Brooklyn Studio, Paper, Lines and Space.. But which came first? The line drawings or the paper cut-outs? What role does light and photography play moving forward?
“Simulation Activation Default” 2015 Animated GIF (from the Net-Art GIF Repository/Vault)
“Aphrodite’D” – 2021, Animated GIF
Metaphoric Narratives with the Nature of Nature 2020/2021 Digital Illustration Aaaaand we are back with another series of digital art works and a bit of a “how to” process post. Forgive me for the title of this blog post.. At first, I wasn’t sure if this was going to be an…
“Isolated Metaphoric Manifestations (Unexpressed Variation2)” Digital Illustration, 2021 A series of 3D rendered objects disguised as illustrations.. or “thought metaphors” to help express the unconscious and conscious bouts of collective isolation.
The First Post of 2021 Welcome to the first post of 2021, as well as the first body of new art works for the year. It all begins with a series of digital illustrations made from my own photography and Adobe Dimension. I have been meaning to dig into this application for about a…
Evening Strolls, 2020, Animated GIF
“Zoom Accessed Out” 2020, Animated GIF No Captions, No Access. Fix it.
“The Endless Strum to an Endlessly Soundless Song”, 2020, Animated GIF
The Robots Are Coming! 2020, Animate GIF
“An Evening Stroll with Variation” 2020, Animated GIF (A 3 version series) Which one is your fav?
“A Loop Through the Neighborhood” 2020, Animated GIF Two friends walk through their neighborhood together, they walk silently and reflect upon their day. As dusk sets in, the colorful urban background of buildings seem to flow past hastily as the characters bob up and down…
“Metaphoric Tactical Displacements”, 2020, Digital Illustration Two 3D generated figures dressed in special ops / tactical gear are placed into an art gallery. The viewer of the image is provoked to ponder what the circumstances are that brought together this “situation?” The…
“Our Brain’s Really Like, Likes..” 2020, Animated GIF An animated GIF of a graphic image of human brain vibrates infinitely on and on as it pulsates inside of a social media “likes” chat bubble..
Portrait Riffin’ for GIF the Portrait Project A Project Prep for the Fall 2020 Edition Its that time of the semester again. The time where I introduce how to make animated GIFS to my students and fellow humans… OK, Im lying big, I teach this all semester long, how can I not, I…
GIF IT UP is BACK! (As you know!) The 2020 Edition has an Open Call Until 10/31! I hope that you will participate?? These are my submissions below to help inspire and activate your GIF making Chops! – Let’s GIF IT UP 2020! (Content source taken from https://gifitup.net) Soooo…
GIF IT UP is BACK! The 2020 Edition – Open Call! Yes, this is my first iteration and submission to GIF IT UP 2020! (Content source taken from https://gifitup.net) GIF IT UP is an annual gif-making competition for the most creative reuse of digitised cultural heritage material…
Layers of Chaos! 2020, Animated GIF
A Metaphoric Looping Confrontation.. 2020, animated GIF
“From Across the Platform” 2020, Animated GIF
“The Inevitability of Building & Transcending the 3D You” 2020, Animated GIF (VaporWave Edition)
Its that time Again! The NET-ART OPEN-CALL for Submissions continues this semester! FALL / SPRING 2020 – 2021 Edition What does this mean? What is NET-ART on the Commons? The NET-ART 2020 – 2021 academic calendar is now accepting submissions on a rolling proposal basis in the…
In class this past week we talked extensively about the power of images, both static and animated. The animated GIF, regardless of how it is pronounced (via one’s personal individual subscription with the hard G or the soft G) it is most often used as a vehicle to communicate…
“When Life Gives You Lemons.. Animate Them!” 2020, A Site-Specific Vertical Animated GIF Sequence of Metaphors.. Do you still refer to an old run down car as a lemon in 2020?
Hello Everyone! Here are some things that you can do to help spread Deaf Awareness at your campus, in your department, in your school, classroom, community and beyond. This post has context. Im a Deaf and Hard of Hearing college professor teaching here in CUNY. This post is…
The Synthetics of Nature, Part 2, animated GIF Natural versus the Synthetic, the absence of presence, dichotomy dichotomy.. #digitalart #nyc #humans #positivespace
Pour-Trait, 2020, animated GIF
Interior_IN_teriors_ 2020, animated GIF and then, with almost no resistance or particular awareness of the transition, all of the world’s rectangles became animated video monitors.. and, no one’s memories were ever static again..
In :: Ter :: NET = the INNER Net-Work of YOU, always going, always reflecting YOU, 2020…
“The Synthetics of Nature”, 2020, Manipulated Digital Image
(Read the description here first as it is the assignment’s example) The Trickery of a Memories Memory.. “The Elusive Memory of Memories from a project about how we think we process Memory” 2020, Digital Ink Jet Print. (adhered to a brick wall with a temporary adhesive , 1/1…
Welcome back! Part 3! Lets make a “free-standing” variation of this project that works “in the round”. This post is part 3 of 5 parts from the Paper, Light & Storytelling Project. *Be sure to read Part 1 first – go HERE *and don’t miss Part 2 – go Here *then jump to Part 5 …
Pushing Context Further, 2020, Animated GIF There is context to this GIF that can be found in the URL below: https://netart.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/08/20/applied-art-resistance-hybridization/
“Applied Art Resistance Hybridization” Hmm, this is probably just a working title above, or perhaps just another bout of my applied art making resistance? Or wait, maybe it is not resistance, it is the creative desire to always things more. To always expand and push it beyond…
Rebirth of the Course Syllabus – The Visual Aesthetic – Part 1 August 2020 (**YES, my intention is to make this a workshop or a course that integrates into existing courses**) Let us start with this: “What are the creative potentials of a course syllabus? What role do visual…
I hope that this post will serve as both inspiration and an example to create your own variations this fall 2020. “Passing Through Woodside” 2018 – 2020, is a series of digital art works that built a narrative from a single image. This series is a perfect example of how a moment…
ROOFTOP PERSPECTIVE REFLECTING (kinda yelling in caps) About this assignment: Let’s generate a new blog post that shares a “shift in your perspective about something” and how you became aware of your process. Be sure to share compelling media to support and help “paint this…
Generating New Forms with Household Items & Multiples New forms are always awaiting entry here onto our planet! Its your job to participate in the process. Lets investigate a few news ways to see, create and explore forms using a common household item like transparent tape. The…
Visual Chaos in 2003 – A Reflection Here is an old studio shot from 2003. This image “is” the art and functioned as an installation piece for a mid-semester critique with the graduate committee. I was about to complete my MFA in New Media, Sculpture & Installation from LIU a…
Welcome to Paper, Light, Shadow & Storytelling Part 5! Lets make a musical instrument of sorts? Above, you can see my final outcome. I temporarily adhered the artwork to the wall using duct tape. This is a quick fix to apply the art to the wall and take a series of photos. The…
Faster and Faster.. 2020, animated GIF
Its Still Electric Though.. 2020, animated GIF
This post is part 2 of the Paper, Light & Storytelling Project – be sure to read Part 1 first 🙂 – go HERE Welcome to Part 2! Lets add some compelling light to our piece. After cutting and organizing your pieces onto the wall lets talk about options for how they can become…
Its TRUE! The wait is over! NET-ART’s infamous companion course: “CT101 Digital Storytelling” is now officially taking place here on the Commons! We are excited to bring the course in its full entirety here beginning this coming Fall 2020 semester. Two new sections of CT101 will…
A hybrid character composed of outdated technology hardware hovers over the beach of your last bad decision. A decision made to not use and apply “alt-text” or add closed captions to your last video podcast. “The Reminder” may come for you and face “it” you must…
How-to make an Ephemeral Paper Sculpture.. from Home! Here is a fun tutorial that you can follow along with (from home) through this post. This blog post is both the assignment and the example for how you may choose to create and publish your own work. This is part 1 of the…
“ImAg-IN-a-TioN”, 2020, Animated GIF & Digital Image Im trying to re-image how to apply the imagination. Do you say “my imagination” or “the imagination”? It’s the most intangible thing, is it not? But so necessary, so needed and powerful. (forgive me for starting this sentence…
Reflective Metaphoric Flowers, 2020, animated GIF There is a silver lining, we are growing, there is so much to process and reflect upon, I feel like Im the slowest at this part… It is the greatest contrasting time of all of our lives. It’s been hard. We all want to plant new…
“The Dis-Miss-ed Inner Calls”, 2020, Animated GIF
The Coming Consequences of the Glitch, 2020, Animated GIF
How to Caption iOS Device Videos How to caption a mobile/ smartphone video, it’s NOT hard people. Are you using an iOS device? iPhone or iPad ? Lets start with iOS devices first – here is a walk through the process.. 1. Locate and Open the Free “CLIPS” app that comes with your…
Time for another collaboration between – @JillyBallistic & Slow aka @ryanseslow with today’s PSA: Droplets can easily travel up to 6ft folks! Wear a mask & Social Distance, do your part by protecting yourself and others – Stay safe!
“The Inevitable Rebirth Contemplation of the Course Syllabi”, 2020, Animated GIF
Metaphoric Nature, Context & Application
Binary Transmissions
The Consistent Promise of the Non-Static
Reflections at the End of the Portal…
Me-ta-phors, meTA-for…
(please click on an image above to expand the gallery) Absence of Presence, 8 Scenes from the Quarantine.. I write this on April 18th at 3:55 PM, Brooklyn, NYC. I would like to share this small series of images with the intention of expressing the perplexing absence of presence…
The Communication of Transportation..
This is How Zoom Sounds.. Can you dig it?
The Net-Art community runs far and wide here on the commons! I wanted to issue a statement that assists both my York & BMCC students both current and alumnus, as well as the general community of peeps checking in and contributing regularly. So, here we are entering our second…
U.S Providers Offering FREE Wi-Fi or Special Accommodations for 60 Days (Via Sara Vogel) Lots of resources here for temporary FREE WIFI access : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjVFeWefjnEfUrCR2yXxOvsp6_rDOfaMivUEiaBreiA
Default to Compassion
Access Access!
Andy Andy..
NEWYAWK’ed..
Are Internet Memes ART? CT101 – Digital Storytelling students at York College are always up for the challenge! (Screen the video above first and read the articles below, its context, it helps!) Further, then, do an internet search for “Are memes ART?” See what you discover.. Oh…
Experimental fun using data bending, remix processes, hacking and an old typeface found in the public domain. Been doing some ink jet printing experiments as well with the idea of single run off of each print. Perhaps its just for fun during the experimentation process. Lets see…
This new gif is inspired by the far too many beyond frustrating issues I keep having with big companies.. I cant “hear” on a phone and “just call the toll free number” option does not work for me.. Companies like Optimum and Verizon are two of the absolute worst companies I have…
Double Check Please!
Mellow Mannered Portrait Riffings
The NET-ART OPEN-CALL for Submissions continues this semester! Spring 2020 Edition What does this mean? What is NET-ART on the Commons? The NET-ART 2020 academic calendar is now accepting submissions on a rolling proposal basis in the following criteria: Electronic Media /…
Inner-Transparencies
Remember That Time When We…
Analog to Digital to Digital Analog – 2020 is already proving to be an ambitious year!
Con-Tem-Play-Shun – 2020
And here we are, 4 days into 2020! How are you? I have a lot going on at the moment, teaching-wise, art-wise, design-work-wise and beyond (which is all good stuff!) Of course I want to start the new year with a fresh post, full of energy and excitement for the new year and…
Approaching the 2020 Activation Portal!
(animated GIF collaboration, Michael Branson Smith & Ryan Seslow) Wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday Season, Winter Break and 2020 New Year! It has been a great year and a great fall semester! Much Love and Gratitude! ‘the team and & community at NET-ART
Digital Stories from NYC, Snippet #212
Twenty Eight Degrees & Glitchy in NYC
We would like to take this time to thank our hosts, friends and colleagues at the CUNY Academic Commons! Happy 10 Year Anniversary! We appreciate you! We are proud to be here and look forward to growing together! THANK YOU!
York CT101 GIFs the Portrait-Fall 2019 Edition! Back at it, Portrait GIFFING! This fall semester my students at CUNY York College collaborated on the annual GIF the Portrait project. CT101 is the energetic digital storytelling course that introduces, exposes and installs the…
Nostalgia Technologica
The IN-ter-Net U, 2019, animated GIF
The State of the Internet
the-Lapsed-ness
Inclusion & Access 4 ALL!
Lyle Contemplates the Ephemerality of it All.
Great opportunity to submit your work! Check it out! What is FILE? FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is a non-profit cultural organization that sparks a reflexion on the main aspects of contemporary digital and electronic universe; disseminating the electronic…
Project Title – “The Cross College, Campus, Course ZINE Collab Project!” Participating Courses & Campuses: Professor Michelle McAuliffe’s :: – ART255, Digital Photography Class – Galluadet University, Washington, DC Professor Ryan Seslow’s :: – CUNY York College, NYC, CT101…
Electronic Locations
Would Picasso be Making GIFs in 2019? This GIF is based on a Vector portrait making demonstration in my MMA100 class at BMCC.
Why Should I Make a Portfolio? Wait, what exactly is a portfolio? There seems to be a context…or is there? Let’s define it, and perhaps there is metaphoric value and context in each one of these “traditional definition” examples below.. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary…
Communication Portals Will Take Over.. As all flat surfaces consistently convert to digital spaces for communication and visual consumption, what role will you play in the revolution? Garage door replacement #2123
Non-Static Situational Narratives XIV
GIF the Portrait, A Collaborative Contribution, ELL101, Spring 2019 About the Project: Faculty Instructor: Inés Vañó GarcíaTeaching Artist: Ryan SeslowELL 101, Introduction to LanguageLaGuardia Community College ELL 101, Introduction to Language students from LaGuardia Community…
This is NOT a Can of Soup…. This is NOT a can of soup, and the #collaboration with @jillyballistic is definitely NOT over! 👊
The Is-ness of Narrative Such-ness
GIF IT UP is Back! The 2019 Edition is underway! Its an Open Call via Europeana This is a great opportunity to do some historic research through their extensive digital collections, and then, ANIMATE them! Thats right, if you have been following and participating on this…
Familiar Faces
Unsettled Abstract Letterforms
Carrying on the CT101 tradition, Digital Storytelling students at York College expressed their feelings towards their CT101 class by investigating and generating Internet MEMEs. Students were introduced to working with Adobe photoshop, applying images from the web and adding a…
The “Shedding Previous Avatar Identities” Project! When do digital identities and electronic foot-prints eventually need to be let go of? Does the Internet machine actually release them? Sooner than later perhaps, we need to take action, and induce a ritual to let them go. Is…
Digital Electronic Temperature, Heat Iteration #1
“Situational Sunday Sequences” animated GIF, 2019
September is Deaf Awareness Month! Here are some things that you can do to help spread Deaf Awareness at your campus, in your department, in your classroom and beyond. This month you can help spread awareness about Deaf culture, what it means to be Deaf & Hard of Hearing (HofH)…
Meanwhile on 5th & 26th..
Im excited to share this blog post with you today (and beyond as it will be updated and archived). As you all know, I’m a big fan of the CUNY Academic Commons. There are more reasons than I can mention at the moment, but I wanted to take this opportunity to emphasize the idea of…
Fridays..
Vintage postcard Remix fun – Greetings From New York… Been working on an example for one of the first assignments of the semester. Its not required that students have to “remix” existing content to achieve their final outcome, but it sure is a lot of fun, and sets a great tone…
NEW_YORK
The NET-ART OPEN-CALL for Submissions continues this semester! FALL 2019 Edition What does this mean? What is NET-ART on the Commons? The NET-ART 2019 academic calendar is now accepting submissions on a rolling proposal basis in the following criteria: Electronic Media /…
What’s NEW?
I would like to ask my fellow teaching colleagues far and wide to consider this information as you begin teaching your courses this fall. Whether you are teaching 1 course or 7 (like myself), this applies to all. Keywords – Patience, Empathy, Compassion, Creativity…
The Closing of Summer’s Portal..
NYC Narratives from Concrete to the Shore
Them Peeps..
I M P O R T A N T!
Multi-Narrative-Dreaming
Motion-MoNdAy-NyC
Making Decisions in July..
Sequenced {} Stillness
Various Inner-Net Compartments
Reflective Electric Shoreline Transparency
“The Contemplation of Metaphoric Flight”, 2019, is a series of digital art illustrations & GIF animations generated from public domain source images via the NYPL digital archives. The illustrations were created by your old friend, Ryan Seslow. The new series of works above were…
This blog post is a contribution that I made for the CUNY BMCC Open Pedagogy website here on the Academic Commons. I am lucky to be a part of the BMCC teaching and learning team this summer! This blog post will serve as a series of examples to help inspire, format and display…
Compartmentalized Contained Narratives
Just a Few Birds, That is All
Happy Summer Y’all!
Sequenced
Access to your inner-Ryan _Seslow-self is only a password away…
Summer Contemplations
More Flow from Dr. Slow
NYC Peeps, Volume 1a
We hope to see you today, Thursday, May 30th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM in the James Gallery at the Graduate Center CUNY for “Pressing Public Issues: Presentations and Exhibition Launch.” Please join faculty and students from across CUNY community colleges, and teaching artists for…
Channel Perspectives
Welcome to the 2019 MBS_RMS_NET-ART_COLLAB. Lets get you caught up and give you some perspective, it would make sense for you to click on this link below first: http://projects.michaelbransonsmith.net/ryan-mashup/ Be sure to click anywhere in the browser window and see what…
The Last Day of Finals (for now)…
Dimensional
Building New Realities
Passing By.. 3D characters created using Adobe FUSE
There is an agent inside of you, me and all human beings. The agent is a spy, a diplomat, a spiritual master and a physician of energy and matter. The agent will is coming for you today to activate a doorway, you must walk through it…. This coming week will display the sum total…
Masked Quest
AVATAR Selectors
TRANSFor-m
The Game Begins, April 2019, is an animated video art work in progress constructed from multiple individual components. The animated clips were composed and generated with various mobile and desktop applications. They have been layered and and recomposed in Adobe after effects…
We always knew that you were a spy, even from day one. We didn’t care at the time and it still doesn’t matter now. They all said that its a metaphor really, and down that rabbit hole we would all go together..Good luck on this new case, and may your transformation continue..
Thrice an Iteration of Infinite Motion
The Pilot
The Infinite Run
Trance Walk to the Portal
TiMeTRaveLS ContinuED
“Every Conversation I Never Overheard” – a second iteration forward. Ryan Seslow, 2019, Multiple Channel Animated Video. I feel that physical scale plays a role in the development, impact and sharing of works like this. I always ask myself, can it hold up on Instagram, Youtube…
64’D
Ceaseless Motion Sundays
coMMuniCATIOns
The CT101 GIF the Portrait Collab – Spring 2019 Edition! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1z5I2d6kBVBtge0Yv1STQfgzHM_2BiGLu The link above is an active google drive folder that contains all of the source content that amounted to the collaborative GIFs above. CT101 students from…
Inclusive Reclusive
Communication Saturation
Expanding Upon the Story
access / AXE-ses / akcez
“The Fictional Sequence Ticker of Unconscious Is-ness”
Situational Is-Ness (Part of the Open Access Art History Remix Project that is COMING SOON!)
Layered Situational Narratives (Part of the Open Access Art History Remix Project that is COMING SOON!)
“The Multi-Self Channel Narrative” is Part 1 of a new multi-channel soundless Video Art narrative. This piece is set as the background for the additional layers as they develop. This piece was started on March 24th 2019 and created from various art historical images that can be…
The Subtle Transition of “Painting”
Red Pill or the Blue Pill? Red Essay or the Blue Essay?
Graphic Design for Websites (and beyond) “Graphic Design for Websites” is a workshop placing an emphasis on the basic elements and principles of graphic design in relationship to front end web design aesthetics. Students will be exposed to various examples and applications for…
Pacific Street Time Machine
Binary Saturday
GIF the Portrait Continues! Join in! GIF the Portrait is an open online gallery and exhibition with a rolling deadline. The process is simple, take, use or discover a portrait (yourself or someone who inspires you) and make it move! The .GIF file format powered by a web browser…
Three Sixty Rotation View
eN Y Cee
Art History Mash Ups & ReMix Considerations
Art History Remixed Can you name the painting(s) used to make this remix/mash-up?
Metaphoric Portals of Your Inner Transformation
Access NO Access 2019, Digital Illustration
Make More ART
An animated Digital Art promo for Reclaim Hosting’s up and coming Domains conference in June of 2019 – #domains19 is going to be awesome! Im super excited and honored to be a keynote artist and participant contributing various art formats both online and as a physical site on…
En WHY cee
Oh yes, its time. The MEME Gallery on the NET-ART Website. A Collaboration that demands your participation. Will you take the Red pill or the Blue pill? Time will tell.. The project kicks off below with a gallery / series of MEMEs generated by CT101 Students at York College in…
Much LOVE!
I would like to present to you below a new series of art history remixes and animated GIF mash-ups that I created for the 2019 CAA annual conference. The conference is taking place in NYC this year (2/13 -2/17) and will be filled with amazing energy, great people, tons of…
I-dee-AHS
Vapor Wave Station Remix
With excitement I would like to share the Fall 2018 Open Call for Submissions results that have been received and published here on the Net-Art website. Please take the time to review each project and gallery one at a time. Would you like to assimilate and work on a similar…
Woodsided
Sudden Changes
Woodsided’
Familiar Selections, Choices & Chances
“The Existential Value of the Remix as an Idea”
Futurescapes
LOOPS
Squad
I S O L A T E D in Space
Art History – Situational Reality Remixes – Vol. 1
Room for Space – (a multi-channel animation)
Across the Water
F U T U R E – perspectives
Johnny Vapor Wave Part 1
The Intermission Continues
Enjoying the Holiday Break
Im seeking a large wall to paint this on. Do you have any leads? Please get in touch if you can help. rseslow@york.cuny.edu (click to enlarge)
From Stone to Electronic Vector Paths
This semester in our CT101 Digital Storytelling class at York College we played with the idea of non traditional image-making and multiplying ourselves into a single image frame. (No photoshop required, but it helps later on) By using the panoramic feature of our smart phones we…
A Handful of Light & Color
Cognition Composite Fragments
CT101, the YORK College Cross Course Collab Part II This fall semester the students at CUNY York College collaborated on the annual GIF the Portrait project. CT101 is a digital storytelling course that fosters the understanding and application of digital tools while creating a…
(Statement below) “Emojied Movie Moments” Animated GIFs by Michael Branson Smith “When was the last time you spoke to someone on the phone? And if you’re over 35-40 think about how much time you used to spend talking on the phone. But not so much these days right? Much of that…
Window Shimmers
PIXEL Soldiers
PoTENtiaLs
Responding to the Open Call for Submissions here on the NET-ART website comes a collaborative animated GIF / Video Art piece from MFA/MA Graduate students at LIU Post. (A few of the students are CUNY alumni) “WE” is a collaborative Video Art / Animation Statement: “We” Our…
Inter-Dimensional Semester’s End Musings
The Speed of Missing Sounds
A Raining of Suns
3D Meta-Monday –>
The Jump to 3D Animation
Accessibility Aware!
This gallery is dedicated to the Vapor Wave Aesthetic. Read the Blog post that started this project! Click Here!
Welcome to the CT101 Digital Storytelling Gallery of Vapor Wave Aesthetic. CT101 is a Digital Storytelling course at CUNY York College. Inspired by this blog post previously published by professor Michael Branson Smith we set off to explore and experiment the genre as a class…
Vapor Wave Accessibility
Tonight, 11/13 don’t miss the NET-ART Open Call for Submissions Lightning Talk presentation! When: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 – Room C198 Will you SUBMIT?
Accessibility Communication A continued series of animations advocating for #deafawareness – we all need to stay mindful on how we communicate with others. We need to express and communicate what our individual needs are. Its easier said than done. This takes practice. We need…
*No::Stal::GIA*
Making a new series of #arthistory #remix #GIFS for the up and coming @caavisual conference in #NYC this coming February 2019. Working from the @metmuseum ‘s extensive public domain digital archive. Stay tuned for more. #caa2019 #caanyc #aftereffects
Welcome to NET-ART’s Open Call for Submissions! SPRING 2019 What does this mean? What is NET-ART on the Commons? The NET-ART 2018 & 2019 academic calendar is now accepting submissions on a rolling proposal basis in the following criteria: Electronic Media / Experimental Pedagogy…
Art History Remix Re-Deux! Can you name all of the works, artists & titles??
Animated Art History Remix Fever! +10 points goes to the first person who can name the artist and title of this piece in the comments below! +25 points goes to the person who can find and screen grab the secret hidden image in this sequence!
No Matter How you Cut It, You Still Are..
The Electric Learning Board Transcends
Synthetic Ephemeral Sounds by Electronic Power Installation Simulation, 2018, #10 Batteries, Digital Print mounted on board cut to the contour line. Coming Soon..
Manifesting Exhibition Simulations It is my intention to bring an electronic exhibition of Deaf Awareness works to a CUNY Art Gallery in NYC. It is my intention for this exhibition to be a collaborative venture with other CUNY faculty members and CUNY students of all levels…
Simulating Part 1
timeSPACEcolorMOVEMENT
You knew I would! This is my first submission to GIF IT UP 2018! A great and worthy creative event that converts history into animated GIF awesomeness. Check out the details and info below. Remember, when in doubt or feeling burnt out, make a GIF! HOW TO PARTICIPATE? 1. Find an…
Everyday.
Title this GIF! Comments Welcome!
The Visual Transmission of a Synthetic Idea
Communication Aware Are you as aware of “how” you communicate with your fellow human beings as you think you are? Do you look at them and give them your attention in your exchanges? How aware are you when you assert yourself? Are you taking #communication for granted? Perhaps…
Electric Forms
The Uncertainty of Public Communication Today is the last day of #deafawarenessmonth – I have learned so much and met some really amazing people! (In CUNY and beyond) This is only the beginning though, there is much work to do in bringing more accessibility and awareness to the…
The technology for closed-captioning television & video content has been available since 1972, but in 2018 we still have a long way to go in making high quality accurate captioning accessible for all. I made this #animation for #DeafAwarenessMonth & #deafawarenessweek – spread…
OPEN CALL – for F.I.L.E – 2019 FILE 2019 | Call for Entries Registrations are opened to the 20th edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, from September 05 to November 30, 2018. Since year 2000, FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been…
You Can L E A R N Too! September is National Deaf Awareness month. How will you be contributing? Im practicing #ASL and sharing the sign language alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc) Im also going to make a series of new animations (like…
Continued Strives for Communication Access
Sign Language Loves YOU! September is Deaf Awareness Month, are you learning?
Deaf Awareness Month & NYC Graffiti – #deafawarenessmonth
September is National Deaf Awareness month. How will you be contributing? Im going to be practicing #ASL and sharing the #signlanguagealphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc) Im also going to make a series of new #animations (like this one)…
Beating Memories & the Saved Memory
#happylaborday everyone! September is National #Deaf Awareness month. How will you be contributing? Im going to be practicing #ASL and sharing the #signlanguage alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc) Im also going to make a series of new…
September is National Deaf Awareness Month How will you contribute? Im going to be practicing ASL and sharing the sign language alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc). Im also going to make a series of new animations (like this one above)…
Passing Stories in the Micro-Now-Ness
the endless transit of the mind
Comm Uni Cat ion TOOLS
SWAY
Ride in the Sky
Electric Oceans
Many Loops – Mural Monitor Integration
Quick Change
Station Glitch
Memories -VS- Memory
A S L – A R T
Messages from the Synchronistic-Self
Upgrades to Corona Park! Ah, fiction! Yes! Sorry, but how cool would it be to see Corona Park in Queens, NYC revived and revamped with additional parachute jump towers offering a new environments for the public? One a restaurant, one a library, one a internet cafe, one a…
The Internet has your attention, 110% of it. Everything else seems secondary and you know it. Even though you may resent the part of yourself that believes it, you comply. The Internet, the global communication protocol. A network connecting and providing infinite sources of…
UNI V E R S E
Every Story I Never Overheard
Time-Transit-Travel
Communicatools
I love the immediacy of taking photos with my iPhone and using them directly as inspiration for new digital art works. The ability to shoot, capture and apply one’s own visual references in immediacy continues to fuel my desires as a media artist. In my latest new media project…
Hearing Not Hearing Distortion City
Been Painting Murals..
Communicating My Deaf & Hard of Hearing Self – Part 1 Welcome to my first series of art works produced examining and identifying as a deaf and hard of hearing person. It has been a long road. This body of work is the first in a multi-part series with supporting written…
An ongoing visual. Wrongly, from a very young age my impression of being deaf and hard of hearing was viewed and internalized as a major impairment and disability. I absolutely disagree with my past self, and the assessment that the ever so young me had made. The confused little…
Oculus-ing
Happy Summer Y’all!
A Soundless City
The Long Cross-Over 1 & 2 (Click the images to view the larger size) The NET-ART website also supports Static Digital Art works. Submit your work! Contact us!
Over-Compensated-ART
The More I Missed, The More I Made.. I am overcoming a lot of my fears by directly putting myself in public positions to have to talk about how hearing loss and being deaf has affected my life. As a college professor (yep, for 14.5 years now) I have to be in front of a …
G R A F F I T I – Contexts
Exhibition Simulation of Missed Communication “Unraveling & Integrating 40 years of Missed Communication” This is a “Simulated Proposal” of a new Exhibition that I would very much like to mount. If you are interested in further information please contact me directly via e-mail –…
Graffiti Finger Spell Glitch
The Final Push, Spring 2018 Semester Another semester winding down, the final last two weeks in place. The last push. The last run. This new #animation is a #metaphor – we as #teachers are cued into grading and assessment mode. This is a crucial time to exercise compassion…
“The Attempted Recomposition of a Synthetic Auditory Miscommunication” is an Illustration and Animated GIF series of new work examining my identity as a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person. In a previous post two days ago I began a long over due process of sharing and expressing who…
The Transportation of Communication
Dear Common Community, Today begins a journey into a series of new art works revolving around being #hardofhearing and #deaf I have lived between both of these realities for my whole life. With out hearing aids I do not hear any sound, with them I can hear about 50% of what a…
Met Museum Metaphoric Glitch
Its that time of the semester again. Student Presentations! The final week is upon us and it is time to present your semester’s worth of completed work. As New Media Art student’s there are so many opportunities at hand! The word “presentation” is a great word in and of itself…
Museum Hacking
Reach & Know
DIGITAL ART & STATIC SUCHNESS (A gallery dedicated to the non-moving of things)
The Disks are Local
Syntax-ED Time-less-ness
EpirED
Electric Creativity
Emotional Glitch
Endless Rotations in Yellow
Watching the Watchers
When the Tools Want to Flex!
Artistic Growing Pains Feel Good!
Timelessness
NewYawked
York College CT101 Students GIF the Portrait – March 2018 My CT101 Digital Storytelling students rocked a series of digital portrait manipulations learning the ins and outs of image manipulations with Adobe photoshop. Many of the students are first time users of photoshop. What…
Fragments of the Meditation
Good Vibes, FLU Be Gone.
Portrait Dis-tor-tions
March 2018 Im happy to finally publish and share some of the results generated from the fall semester of 2017. The works were submitted by my CT101 -Digital Storytelling students at York College specifically for the NET-ART website on the Commons. Both sections of the course…
Infinite Loops – Infinite Trace
F Ly i GH t
The Virtual Magician of the Chambers Street Station
B-Boy Memories on VHS
V I R T U A L S
Wally Sutton’s Internet Art Making Creative Blogging Project #1 Who is Wally Sutton and why is he here? Simply put, Wally Sutton is a fictional character. He’s a Walrus, however, he doesn’t know that Walrus’s aren’t supposed to wear human clothing or sell things like…
Chambers Street Interventions
Augmenting Reality With Bananas in NYC
Mobile, Smart & Cell Phone Digital Art Making Its no secret that there is a ton of potential in mobile/smart phone art making. In fact, you might be a little late to the party! (Im kidding, its never to late to join in). There are literally tons and tons of apps that are both…
Who Needs Vintage Keyboards?? We Got them!
Graffanimation NYC
What About Spiritual Currency?
When it Rains, Bananas…
Screen Cindy Sherman’s short film: “Doll Clothes” from 1975. Click here. Via the Ubu.Web Film & Video Archive – (An Amazing Resource!) “When I was in college, I made this book of doll clothes for my photography course. I was documenting a piece that I had already made for a film…
IN-vention of U r FUTURE
Emotions Run Deep
Are Internet Memes ART? Screen the video above first and read the articles below. Do an internet search for “Are memes ART?” See what you discover. No matter how you cut it, memes are here to stay…is this good or bad for Art? Is this good or bad for Education? Is there context…
F U T U R E
Wally Sutton Motherboard.
Please screen the video art works above and below and respond in the comments section below. 1. “Les Grands Ensembles” by Pierre Huyghe (1994–2001) – (Above) (I was lucky enough to screen this piece above in full scale at the Guggenheim in 2002). “On October 16, 2002, Pierre…
I Remember Analog but my Soul Wants to VR!
Internet Acceptance
Logo Motion on the CAC!
The NET-ART Course is an Open Commons Course for All! About the Net-Art Course: This is a CUNY Academic Commons Collaborative Course. You will Collaborate here. (join the Net-Art group here) Chances are you may have arrived here thinking that this course may not be for you or…
Handstylin’ with my Friends
Fragmented FLoW
We are indeed Digital Storytellers
Today’s VIBE NYC
INforMAtion
Transformative Stories
S L I D I N G – P O R T R A I T S
DIGITAL TRAVELS
New Narratives
LO-cals
Telling Digital Stories
Motion Graphics Wednesday!
S L O W & The Hip Hop Flow NYC
Animated Upgrades
Subtle Vibrations in Modern Painting
Metropolitan Ave
Monday is the Best Day!
V I S U A L :: S T I M U L A T I O N
Inter-connectivity of Is-ness
Watching the Commons in 2018 like..
twenTyeighTeen
Electric Views in NYC – Happy New Year!
WinteRing
Lending an Electronic Hand
Continued Holidays
Happy Holidays
TEch.KNOW.lo.gees
Navigation Map from the Year 2074
A Digital Nature
L a ND s C A p E s
Mapping the Next Manifestation
CUNY QCC 2D Design Students “GIF the Portrait” for the NET-ART website. One of the final projects in our foundation 2D design class here at CUNY QCC is a multi-fragmented modular project. It puts a display on the various skill sets acquired through out the semester. With the…
Hacking the Messages
Electric CITY 2017, Digital Photography Manipulations & Mini Zine. Electric City is the start of a series of digital photographs taken in NYC between the years of 1999–2004. The images have been re-photographed from screen shots taken from my damaged iMac computer purchased in…
Interface Metaphors, 2017 – GIF – An Animated Metaphor Day in and day out we are interacting with both software and hardware interfaces. Most of us don’t understand how they work, or care to, we just expect them to work, and work well on our command. Perhaps the overall concept…
Contemplation
About the Net-Art Course: Updated on 5/6/25 Net Art 2.0: Expanding Creativity Through AI and Open Access If you’ve found your way here, welcome! You’re stepping into a platform that’s always been about more than just “art.” When I first created Net-Art as an Open Education…
Solo Show
Multi-Media-Animated-Hybrids
CRYPTO’ed
FAST >< FORWARD
Holiday Transformation Nostalgia
#NetNeutrality
Unfamiliar Rooms & Encounters of Reconnaissance
NOSTALGARIA! This GIF above has been created by applying and remixing several small GIFs taken from the gifcities.org Internet archive website. Do you know of it? It consists of characters from the Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter video games that were insanely popular in the…
Unfamiliar Rooms
Save to Disk –> P A U S E
Many Faces
L A Y E R S in Time & Organic Sequences
The NET-ART Gallery & Exhibitions Jump Pad Here you will find an Ongoing, Growing Series of Creative Responses and Collaborations to the Various Open Calls & Submissions prompts! Would you like to submit? Check out our guidelines here <– Finally a VR Exhibition on NET-ART Scott…
Don’t Sleep – 2017
AVOID * SLOW A collaboration between SLOW & AVOID – November 2017
Widget Awareness is a Special Kind of Awareness…
“Little Johnny Dreams of what he will do with 280 Characters on Twitter”
The Materializing of Synchronicity
Cross Disciplinary Testing
Meanwhile…..
:: NET-ART :: Professor: Ryan Seslow Contact: rseslow@bmcc.cuny.edu Semester: This is an Ongoing Open Source Course created for the CUNY Academic Commons. The suggested syllabus has been updated on 5/15/26 Course Description Net-Art is an ongoing, open practice for making art in…
Required Reading and Resource Familiarity Updated June 5th 2026 This is a living list. It updates as the field updates. Resources are grouped by territory rather than chronology, because the work this course covers now spans too many adjacent practices to manage as a single flat…
Friday Crew
RE – MIxEd
Inter-Semester Academic Time Travel
Icons, Symbols & Avatars
En-Trance
Communication Abstracts
Static Revisions
FLowinG
Vapor Wave ANIMATING TRANSIT GIF FIGHT NET-ART GIF THE PORTRAIT Digital Static Art Welcome to the Open Projects Page! Let’s Get You Started! Here we are presenting several projects that have been ongoing in various capacities over the last few years. These projects have rolling…
Graffanimated
System Errors
Transferring
Electronic Chaos
MEM O ries of MEMory
Dou!
Jux ta Posed
Hello, My Name is:
Transnational
THE FLOW –>
Hacked
Telekinesis Fun!
A GROWING Community of Happy Digital Characters
Sidebar Activation!
The Many Faces of Academia
From Afar, NYC Vibrated…
On the Horizon
INTERNETED
More Colorful Happy Digital Characters
Audio Visual Digital Hybrid
Flowers
Fast Dreams
Digital Portraits to Wallow Over.
Synthetic Transits
Changes in the Background
The Looping FLOW of SLOW
Stop-Motion Nostalgia
Media Nostalgia Collab with @mbransons
The Pixelated Earth Spins Endlessly
Time Constraints No More
I N T E R N E T
Always “INTER-NET-ING “
Don’t forget the teacher we call “ephemeral” – in as early as 2007 I started making molds of, at the time, modern hard-drives. I casted them in cement attempting to give the illusion of permanence. The hard-drive, ah the intermediary friend that holds our “data” – it may be…
Transparent Help – Add a comment or send me a message, lets get it going!
Pacific Street – Time Travel
Synthetic Nature
A GIF Simulation of Ideas as they Form and Assimilate.
Shoreline System Errors
Endless Happy Clouds
Pleasure
Unified Anxiety
Raster Meditations & Pixelated Dreams
Tech Friends
Retroactive Past Self
MAC- OUT
Digital Tensions
Re-CON – TEXT-ing
Worlds Within
ITS TIME TO…
GIFivision
TechnoTime-Travel IVX
Nostalgic DATA Recon
EARTH-ed
Retro-ED
Long Distance Communication
Electric City :: Digital Identity
CommuniMotion
Animated Communication Metaphors
Metaphoric Rotations in Cycles
HypnosisinG
Net Art at the MET?
B-Boy at Planeta
Digital Soldiers
Jump in! Tutorials by Prof. Seslow: NET ART Making – http://www.ryanseslow.com/a-how-to-net-art-gif-making-tutorial/ 2. More NET Art Making – http://www.ryanseslow.com/to-howto-augment-reality-at-a-museum/ 3. Process & Examples in Public Space –…
It might not be What’cha Think…
Electric Shadows of Yourself
WOODside NYC
Internal Shadows of the Electric YOU
Course Resources: The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, designers, educators, and digital explorers! A year ago I published a list of free creative tools (its also below) that could help artists and creators like you…
Conversational-ist the Communicational-ist
The commons has been Net Art’ed..sadly this GIF animation above is only a preview of the entire internet art work due to a limitation with embedding iframe codes here on the commons. I understand, security, potential wonky code, protection… (dot dot dot) not to worry though, you…
Waiting at Penn…
Penn Station Subliminal Messaging
M E T A – Phorical – MEDIA
P L A C E l e s s
FACES
Animated Side Bar Disruptions
synTAXed
movements
AD-ver-ticed-ing-ness-ism
Temper – ature
I WAS FRAMED!
Imagination Sidebar Simulation
earth, your town & mine
TRANS-ferring :: DIGITAL :: Thought-FULL-ness
AD-vert-TISE GLITCH
Audio Visual Digital Media Hybrid
Electric Shadows
— >Documents < — You MUST CLICK on Documents to begin , you must FIND the hidden Document. “Hidden Documents, Local Meanings” : is a NET ART work that is dependent on you and the power of your web browser. It was created using html.
AVoCaDo
Over – Stated – Over
Syncratic meta-PHORS
Possibilities!
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Questions?
MoveMENT
Experimental Logo Exercise March 2017 I had a blast creating this experimental new series of vector graphics. I know, they appear to look like logos, icons & symbols, and they certainly can be depending on how they are presented. In this context, what do you see? Brought…
Time Travel
M O V E M E N T
Availability
Site on Scene
Updated the living room with some animated GIFs….
WEE FEE
The Army of Watchers – 2017
E M P I R E
A Sunday Flow
Snow Day
D A T A
Dis-Place-Ment
Ephemeral Chances?
City Walks
Conver-say-TIONS
The Endless A- Train Ride
Be Like Johnny, Johnny B-Boy – 2017
Transportation of Communication
Horizons of Potential – 2017
The Hypnotic Loop of Endless Trickery 2017
Caps, Monitors & Keys :: Tools
Default Reality Service Disruptions!
animated doc-types, which doc-type are you?
Static Glitch System Error
Reality is on Default until you are: Augmenting & Customizing it!
Inspired by Buckminster Fuller 🙂
A glitch GIF animation created using multiple filters via the Glitche’ mobile application for iphone.
Consider this message: “The Internet is Unavailable” Would you default back to the book stacks? If you did what may they look like?
I N T E R N E T I N T E R N E T I N T E R – N E T inner-net Value of the Spiritual Self.
Welcome to NET ART! An exploration with the potentials of url co-dependence!