We already kind of covered the birth of the computer and so forth in class, but the article explained a lot more concerning the gradual steps the computer or the internet we have nowadays came to be. I find it amusing how the internet was initiated as a semi-random project which turned out to be one of the greatest technological leaps.
The article on media art provided a lot of insight into the motives behind Net art and the different kinds of ideas the artists were trying to express. I think the thing that stood out to me the most was how so much is counted as Net art - before, I have always thought Net art to be graphic design and, basically, computer graphics more or less resembling traditional art but produced on the computer. The article gave numerous examples of other types. I admire the Net artists who create their art to prove a point; it gives so much more meaning to the project than just doing it for self-satisfaction (which is, in every way, a sensible incentive as well). But I have to admit this is all very new to me and a few forms of Net art still surprise me because aesthetically they look so different from more traditional pieces.
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Right, people still have hard time considering net-art/digital-art as art since Internet is a highly commercialized venue. They expect to find commercial websites, news channels, etc... And the most common perception of art for the majority is that art is whatever is in a gallery or museum.
Net art cannot be experienced in any other medium or in any other way than by means of the network. It is medium-specific and exclusive to the net. And most importantly it is "interactive" accepts input from the user. Just like performance art and happenings, net art doesn't have a solid state, it emerges from the contribution of the participants. But of course, people had hard time accepting performance art as art at the beginning, too.
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