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Digital Folklore encompasses the customs, traditions and elements of visual, textual and audio culture that emerged from user´s engagement with personal computer applications during the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century. Designers all around the www use stars to get effects for animations and for stills. Placing a star or stars in different places on each frame of a animated image to get the image to sparkle or glitter. The vernacular web was fascinated by the power of links and often ran to extremes. (Lialina and Espenshied, 2009)
Project: Art teleportacia
→ Some Universe heike, dragan and your browser. Exploration of web platforms.
Project: Ursula von der Leyen-Fanclub
→ Ursula von der Leyen-Fanclub.Website as fan page of Ursula von der Leyen.
Project: Bridging The Digital Divide
→ As Dragan was not "there" he was fascinated by the fact that internet really connects places which are thousands of miles away from each other, bridging big continent and far away island. Because Dragan was not "there" he used only images and sound he found online searching with key words:"bora bora", "tahiti", "beach", "easter island", "holidays", "treasure" and "paradise"
Project: Comtemporary Home
→ Display of icons that are a characteristic of the digital folklore.
Project: Timemachine Firefox
→ Tired of the Web 2.0 Design? This Firefox Add-on warps you back to the amateur web\of 1996.
Project: 640 x 480
→ Display of animations in a series of websites.
Project: Animated Gif Model
→ Display of Gifs.
All contexts appropriated form the following sources:
Zhao, Yan and Yang, Xuguang (2014), “Research on digital media technology in the folk art design.” Edited by Peilong Xu, Hongzong Si, Yiqian Wang and Pin Wang.
Lialina, Olia and Espenshied, Dragan (2009), ”Digital Folklore. To computer users, with love and respect.” Edited by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Publisher Merz Akademie.
Presentation by Olia Lialina about “Digital Folklore” Book (2010).
Lialina, Olia (2005), “Vernacular Web”.
Lialina, Olia, “Vernacular Web 2”.
→ Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina, Art teleportacia (2002)
→ Tobias Leingruber and Dragan Espenschied, Ursula von der Leyen-Fanclub. (2019)
→ Dragan Espenschied, Bridging The Digital Divide
→ Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina, Comtemporary Home.
→ Tobias Leingruber, The Timemachine Firefox Add-on.
→ Olia Lialina, 640 x 480 (2014)
→ Olia Lialina, Animated Gif Model (2005/12)