Upon reading Rachel Greene’s article on net.art, I knew very little the type of art that is distinctively born on the internet- the type that lives and thrives off the interaction that the internet allows. Although these internet art conceptions are no longer in their developing stages, I still have not grouped these new-media art types into their own category. In other words, when net.art is mentioned, nothing popped up in my mind that is conclusively clear or concrete. However, I read Greene’s exposition on the history: “This [email] was of paramount importance to those talking about net.art in the mid- and late ‘90s. Building an equitable community in which art was conspicuously present in one’s everyday activities was a collective goal” (162). This introduction made two things clear to me. One, internet art has existed earlier than my birth year of 1998, which means that it has been around for a while now. Two, the collective goal and ideal to uphold communication among the community of internet artists through email must have been very significant and unparalleled to how communication was delivered and received throughout other art periods.
The passage that stuck out to me the most in this article was the on Name.Space, which was a project that intended to give more freedom in domain names so that corporations or individuals will not monopolize Web addresses. This stood out to me because I was concerned about how can companies and individuals handle the medium that is the web. In a way, the web is like a public space, which means that we are responsible for how we conduct ourselves on it, especially if we choose to be net.artists.