This article introduces the history of how the internet art was formed. At the beginning only very simple art work came out but it represents a new way of art. The artist has more freedom to create his or her work which is great and can be seen by people around the world. The number of the audience became bigger which means that your work will be more likely to find the group of people who like it. This encourage the development of the art, more the audience is, more enthusiastic the artist is. The combination of internet and art really open a new page in the history of art, providing many new ways of expressing ideas.
Then it mentioned the technology. The upcoming technology is also a great promotion to the art. Before, you can only use a paper or a pen to create your art work, but nowadays, you can use many tools online to help you do that. You can use photoshop to easily mix up colors creating your own style, you can also use AE to add great effect to your video. These new technology opens the new page of art, making it interacte with the audience from sound to visual effect. I think this is the biggest changes after the combination of internet and art. The technology will not only make the process easier but also giving us more ideas.
In the article, the author also mentioned a point which is people worry the Internet would soon be colonized by mainstream media. I think this is a serious problem. Nowadays, if you want to be a great designer, you have to let your audience like your work. Also, the view of the audience is influenced by the mainstream media. So the work of the designer has to change to meet the need of the audience, but does that means these art work is great? We all know that some great art work in the history were not accepted by the audience at that time but are accepted by people many years later. This make me think of what is a good artwork and how can the designer not be influenced by the mainstream media. After thinking for a long time, I decided that if I work as a designer, I will make artwork that meet the mainstream of the audience but I will still working on my own piece of artwork but not to meet the mainstream media.
Another thing really touches me is the diversity of the Internet art. People of all ages can create art and share them on the website. More women artist appeared with their impressing artwork. I think the Internet gave many people a chance to do their artwork and to become artist that is the shining part.