Artcontext is a collaborative net art venue headed up by American artist Andy Deck. A typical work involves anonymous visitors to the site in the creation of images which are then immediately incorporated into the site for others to see. Deck's work examines the division of creativity between artist, code, and the public. Several of his works, such as Glyphiti (2001—) and OpenStudio (1999) offer time-lapse visualizations as a way of perceiving the contributions made by the public, good and bad. Other prominent themes include militarism, intellectual property, expressive freedom, social software, anti-corporate politics, and collaboration. Internet art is art or, more precisely, cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium and, more importantly, its subject, much like video art uses video as its medium - but is also very much about video, although many artists working with the Net view video as only a... Image of the Wikimedia Commons logo. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same sort. ... Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake Public also refers to the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Militarism is an ideology which claims that military strength is the source of all security, and that the military represents the forward direction of the society as a whole, as it expands into the world, asserting its influence. ... In law, particularly in common law jurisdictions, intellectual property or IP refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea or of other intangible subject matter. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... Social software applications allow people to interact in virtual reality, connecting or collaborating by use of a computer network. ... A corporation (usually known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as a company) is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name... Politics is the process and method of making decisions for groups. ... Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ...

External links

• Artcontext (http://artcontext.org/)
• Andyland (http://andyland.net/)