Week 12: Net Art | Jonathon Haley

In her article “Web Work: A History of Internet Art”, Rachel Greene touches on the major events and trends in Internet art from 1994 to 1999. Net art to me is interesting because it’s free-flowing, pushing the boundaries of art while at the same time acting as though boundaries aren’t even there. It was revolutionary, not only because artists could interact and share their work like never before, and also because now, anyone could become an artist. In the days before the Internet was filled up by corporations and large interests, back when most of the pages were personal sites and personal art, the artists had true freedom to do whatever they wanted without pressure from outside forces aside from fellow artists. After the subsequent “populating” of the Internet, it makes me wonder if the art community will ever again have such a pure, unfiltered artistic medium to utilize, and if so, what form it might take in the future.

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