Experimentación de nuevas narrativas estéticas visuales en Internet

Abstract

The creation of the World Wide Web in combination with the Mosaic navigator created a before and after in the Internet world, with the start of an eminently visual and multimedia-based stage Internet’s development as a multimedia support was determined by the integration in cyberspace of pre-existing means and narratives. This work forms part of a more extensive investigation entitled Towards genuine expanded cinema that approaches the study of the Internet as a multimedia support in two aspects: firstly, experimentation in new narratives and visual aesthetics —which gives its name to the research— covers different Internet practices including extended cinema (Youngblood, 1970); the second, new methods of webbased audiovisual diffusion and transmission, deals with works from streaming art to those who understand the Internet as an audiovisual folder. From a broad perspective (expanded cinema) and entering its own machinery, this text tries to analyse the different narratives that emerge from the web’s own possibilities and resources. These non-linear narratives, which may be somewhere between traditional cinema and interactive books, and have created interesting terms such as videoweb, web cinema, netart.film, interactive neUfilm.