Week 11: Web Work Response- Cara Chang

Rachel Greene discusses web art from the very beginning of its age and gives an example of an image of what old net art used to look like. Seeing its raw form in a pixelated manner really shows how far internet art has come since it first made an appearance in December 1995. Net art created a new community of artists to form and  communicate with each other in a manner that combined typical art into a multimedia platform. 

What was most interesting to me was the impact that net art had after the neo-liberal movement, allowing people to artistically express their feelings on a much larger scale, which is on the internet, allowing anyone from around the world to have the chance to see one’s story and art. Internet art is easily shareable and accessible to anyone around the world, and is able to be seen and shared in the blink of an eye. 

The presence of net art is very significant to me because it allows people to create any art form they want on a platform with no boundaries. Having art being created on the internet serves another purpose for the computer or any electronic device that proves that these tools are not just tools used for information or searching databases. It allows people to interact with their art in their own way, creating a personal and fun way for others to interpret others’ creation while making it their own. It is crazy to think that internet art started out with something with such little detail and with just a few pixels. Internet art grows with the ever growing rate of the advancement of the internet, improving and outdoing itself every decade. 

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