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Internet art (often called net art) is art or cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium or inspiration (but not necessarily as its subject). Artists working this way are sometimes called net artists. Image File history File links Acap. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 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... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ...

In some cases there might be an analogy to earlier formal art forms like video art, which uses video as its medium - but is also very much about video, like some forms of painting. Some net artists see the Internet as only one component in a meta-artistic system, depending on their specific artistic approach. Some culture producers on the Internet liken the term "net art" or net.art to a pun, a recapitulation of the consumerist ideals of Pop Art. Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. ... For other uses, see Video (disambiguation). ... The correct title of this article is . ... Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art. ...

Internet art projects are art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating. Internet art can also happen outside the purely technical structure of the internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia in the broadest sense. Look up Multimedia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

– definition by Steve Dietz, former curator in new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis One of the most celebrated art museums in the country, the Walker Art Center is known for commissioning and presenting innovative contemporary art; fostering the cross-pollination of the visual, performing, and media arts; and engaging diverse audiences in the excitement of the creative process. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ...

Forms

Internet art can take concrete form in artistic websites, e-mail projects, artistic Internet software, Internet-based or networked installations, online video, audio or radio works, networked performances, code poetry and installations or projects offline. Internet art is part of new media art and electronic art. A few sub-genres of Internet art are software art, generative art and net-poetry. E-mail art (sometimes called Electronic Mail Art) is simply any kind of art sent by e-mail. ... New media art (also known as media art) is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century. ... Electronic art is art which makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. ... Software art refers to works of art where software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. ... Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes. ... Net-poetry begun in Italy in 1998 with the web site , created by the artist and writer Caterina Davinio. ...

In literature, the terms Internet art, Internet-based art, net art, net.art, Web art and "artists working with networks" are all used for this type of work; not any of those names have predominated until now. Some feel the term net.art refers to a specific group of artists working on the medium from 1994-1999; these are usually referenced as Vuk Ćosić, Jodi, Alexei Shulgin and Olia Lialina. These artists were considered a group, and when this group seemed to fall apart, many thought net.art was dead. The art works the term net art refers to however applies to works made by artists before and after the specific period this alleged group existed. The correct title of this article is . ... Vuk Ćosić (born in Belgrade, Serbia, now lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is one of the original net. ... Jodi, or jodi. ... Alexei Shulgin, born 1963 in Moscow, Russia, is a contemporary artist. ...

Other artists were working at about the same time: Mark Amerika, Jaromil, Superbad (Ben Benjamin), etoy, mez, G. H. Hovagimyan, Agricola de Cologne, Valéry Grancher, Fred Forest, Bob Holmes, MTAA, Cary Peppermint, Antiorp and Thomson & Craighead This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jaromil as depicted in HasciiCam, his software to transform video in text and stream it over the network. ... Superbad, the 1997 creation of web designer Ben Benjamin, is an artistic work that was produced using the tools and methods of web design. ... The correct title of this article is . ... mez (Mary-Anne Breeze) is an Australian net artist working also under the identities or, as she calls them, avatars netwurker, data[h!bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque. ... G. H. Hovagimyan is a media and performance artist who lives and works in New York City. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Valéry Grancher (born 1967 April 22 in Toulon, Var, France) is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer. ... MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) is a Brooklyn, New York-based conceptual and new media art duo comprised of M.River (Mike Sarff, born 1967)and T.Whid (Tim Whidden, born 1969). ... Cover art for krop3rom||a9ff, audio CD, 1997 This article is about the art persona. ...

Earlier works of net art were created by artist and theorist Roy Ascott. // Pioneering the place of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has been working with issues of art, technology and consciousness since the 1960s. ...

History and context

Internet art is rooted in a variety of artistic traditions and movements, and could maybe be seen as a radical extension of various art disciplines. Some Internet art projects are particularly related to conceptual art, Fluxus, pop art and performance art. Internet art was initially created in an institutional context, partly in the traditional art world and partly in the media art world. Early projects were performed in collaboration with museums and other art institutions, such as Roy Ascott's work La Plissure du Texte which was created for an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983. Media art institutions such as Ars Electronica Festival in Linz or the Paris-based IRCAM, a research center for electronic music would also support or present early net art. The fact that both the computer and the internet have become a common, accessible technology has allowed a much broader scope of artists to enter the field, often completely independent from art institutions.^{[original research?]} Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. ... Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning to flow—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. ... Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art. ... This article is about Performance art. ... // Pioneering the place of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has been working with issues of art, technology and consciousness since the 1960s. ... Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society which was part of the International Bruckner Festival. ... For the town in Germany, see Linz am Rhein. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...

Internet art was very much in the picture between 1995 to 1998 when the general audience first discovered the Internet. Successful on and offline public venues such as Adaweb directed by Benjamin Weil, Alt-X founded by net artist Mark Amerika, Rhizome initiated by artist and curator Mark Tribe and the Dx web site documentaX curated by Simon Lamuniere put Internet art on the map.^{[citation needed]} The dot-com mania at the time created a double edged sword: it created a lot of attention for this type of art, but at the same time connected it to the soap bubble of online commerce in the minds eye of part of the audience.^{[original research?]} Currently, there is a strong tendency to look at Internet-related artworks in a wider context of art and technology, as also artists working with networks usually prefer to be contextualized within a general contemporary art discourse.^{[original research?]} Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... This article is an expansion of a section entitled Mania from within the main article Bipolar disorder. ...

See also

• Digital art
• Cyberculture
• Net-poetry
• Cyberformance

Computer-generated image created by Gilles Tran using POV-Ray 3. ... Cyberculture is a frequently and flexibly used term lacking an explicit meaning. ... Net-poetry begun in Italy in 1998 with the web site , created by the artist and writer Caterina Davinio. ...

External links

• netzwissenschaft - complete and structured collection of net-art links
• [1] - Digital Studies: Being in Cyberspace - 1997 exhibition curated by Mark Amerika and Alexander R. Galloway
• Annotated links - annotated links to net art sites
• net-art Community Congress
• File Festival-complete collection of net-art
• Feature on Net Art Commissions - Artkrush.com, July 2006
• JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art-comprehensive collections of Internet based art
• JavaMuseum Interview Project- collection of interviews on Internet based art
• net-art.org - portal to web related art
• whitneybiennial - Online exhibition dedicated to web-art
• Rhizome Artbase - Archive of Internet based art at the New Museum in NYC
• ploxx.com - Make a painting online
• Turbulence - Commissions, archives and promotes net art

Alexander R. Galloway is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University and author of the book Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization ISBN 0262072475. ...

References

• Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001). net.art 2.0 – Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials towards Net art. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN 3-933096-66-9.
• Wilson, Stephen (2001). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-23209-X.
• Amerika, Mark (2001). How To Be An Internet Artist. [2]
• Net Art Review a daily updated site that tries to keep pace with what is happening in the world of netart: netartreview
• Greene, Rachel (2004). "Internet Art". Thames and Hudson. ISBN-10: 0500203768, ISBN-13: 978-0500203767.
• Stallabras, Julian (2003). "Internet Art: the online clash of culture and commerce". Tate Publishing. ISBN-10: 1854373455, ISBN-13: 978-1854373458.
• The syndicate network for media culture and media art : http://anart.no/~syndicate
• JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project: [3]
• WB05 e-symposium published as ISEA Newsletter #102 - ISSN 1488-3635 #102 [4]
• Ascott, R.2003. Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness. (E.Shanken, ed.) Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Ascott, R. 2002. Technoetic Arts (Editor and Korean translation: YI, Won-Kon), (Media & Art Series no. 6, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press
• Ascott, R. 1998. Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara). A. Takada & Y. Yamashita eds. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co.,Ltd.
• Fred ForestArt et Internet, Editions Cercle D'Art / Imaginaire Mode d'Emploi