Internet art

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Internet art is art or, more precisely, cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium and, more importantly, its subject, much like video art uses video as its medium - but is also very much about video, although many artists working with the Net view video as only a component in a Software Art or meta-art system, which is very much "about" code. Quoting a definition by Steve Dietz, former curator in new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis: Internet art projects are art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating. Internet art can also happen outside the purely technical structure of the internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia in the broadest sense.

Internet art can take concrete form in artistic websites, e-mail projects, artistic Internet software, Internet-based or networked installations, online video, audio or radio works, networked performances and installations or performances offline. Internet art as a "movement" is part of new media art and electronic art. A few sub-genres of Internet art are software art, generative art, net.radio, browser art, web-specific art, spam art, click environments and code poetry.

In literature, the terms Internet art, Internet-based art, net art, net.art, Web art and "artists working with networks" are used together; not any of those names has predominated until now. Some feel the term net.art refers to a specific group of artists working on the medium from 1994-1999; these are usually referenced as Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting . This can be misleading, however, as other artists were working at the same time: Jaromil, Superbad (Ben Benjamin), etoy / the etoy. CORPORATION, Snarg, mez, (mez breeze), Zuper (Michael Samyn), I/O/D (Collective), Valéry grancher (http://www.nomemory.org),G. H. Hovagimyan, Frederic Madre, Eryk Salvaggio, Annie Abrahams, Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield.org) and Antiorp to name but a few. Some culture producers on the Internet liken the term "net art" or "net.art" to a pun, a recapitulation of the consumerist ideals of Pop Art.

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History and context

Internet art is rooted in a variety of artistic traditions and movements. Some Internet art projects are particularly related to conceptual art, Fluxus, pop art and performance art. Internet art is also historically related to the interdisciplinary field of technology-centered or electronic art which has developed since the 1970s in research institutes and specialized art centers throughout Europe, Japan and the United States - outside the regular, "non-technological" museum and gallery circuit. Examples are the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, early network radio experiments at ORF Kunstradio, and Paris-based IRCAM, a research center for electronic music. The fact that both the computer and the internet have become a common, accessible technology has opened this formerly high tech art circuit up to a much broader field of artists.

Internet art was most visible and witnessed its peak from 1996 to 1998 with succesfull public venues such as Adaweb directed by Benjamin Weil and documentaX curated by Simon Lamuniere; broad public attention and acclaim for Internet art at that time were largely related to the dot-com mania, although some cultural producers linked this form to other contemporary art practises, such as ØtherLands, Humbot 1999 and UNMOVIE docs by collaboratives of artists, hackers, architects and writers. An example of the individual artist using video art and new media techniques to create unique internet art can be found at the 2005 Webby Award nominated site Dreamies where electronic artist Bill Holt displays daily flash video compositions expressing his internet art vision of the world around us. Art in and around computer networks has a much older history though, which can be traced back to the early 1980s, and back to the late 1960s and the "Software" show at the Jewish Museum New York. Currently, there is a stronger tendency to look at Internet-related artworks in a wider context of technological art, while artists working with networks usually prefer to be contextualized within the general contemporary art discourse, bridging real and virtual space, such as Gruppo A12, E-toy, Axel Heide, G.H. Hovagimyan, Knowbotic Research, Joseph Nechvatal, Udo Noll, Philip Pocock, Felix Stephan Huber, Wolfgang Staehle, Gregor Stehle and Florian Wenz,Systaime.

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Artists and projects

A-D

  • Ada'Web - an important early gallery of internet art, now part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center.
  • Arctic Circle - a Net-critical cyber-roadmovie through the Canadian Arctic and along the Infobahn from 1995 by Philip Pocock and Felix Stephan Huber.
  • Art.Net - a site helping artists come online to the Internet and world wide web since June 1994.
  • ArtNetWeb - Early artists collaborative responsible for first internet art exhibition PORT-MIT at the List Visual Arts Museum in MIT
  • Art Dirt - an early internet radio/video talk show hosted by G.H. Hovagimyan, Robbin Murphy, Adrian Wortzel
  • Art Port - Whitney Museum of American Art Portal to Net Art
  • babel - internet art from the British/Canadian writer/artist.
  • in a museumBetaSpace.org - is an evolving venue for new media artists and artwork.
  • Bram.org - Being Human : low tech mood mutators / not immersive : work by Annie Abrahams
  • ctrlaltdel.org - contains all net based art projects from 1995 by Peter Luining.
  • Dispatx.com - Independent organisation curating, developing & promoting contemporary art and literature.
  • DocumentaX - the first international art event including internet art, now as an archive.
  • Dr. Hugo Heyrman - the "Museums of the Mind" is exploring the art & mind connection and the telematic future of art. Online since 1995.
  • Dreamies® - an extensive collection of original internet video art, drama, satire.
  • DVblog - video blog for quicktime movies

E-H

  • etoy - the etoy. CORPORATION
  • Erational - generative interface and software art.
  • Fin del Mundo - launched in 1996. Net art projects from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Created by Gustavo Romano, Belen Gache, Jorge Haro y Carlos Trilnik.
  • fluxproject - the broadcast contain real time pixel paintings, orbit compositings, gestural performances, digital videos, recordings , ... @ heybeliada istanbul turkey // local broadcasters : onur uyar, sedat türkantoz
  • Furtherfield - since 1997 Furtherfield has been an online platform for the creation, promotion, and criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing, experience and interaction.
  • Frespech - since 1996 : works by Nicolas Frespech
  • Humbot - a 'Kohonen SOM 'movie-mapping' collaboration by Daniel Burckhardt, Gruppo A12, Udo Noll, Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Wolfgang Stehle.

I-N

  • IASLonline Lessons in NetArt with articles on net artists, themes and theories of net art, tips and annotated links to platforms and texts, bilingual (german/english), by Thomas Dreher.
  • Idealine -A Net Art Idea Line mapping lines of thought through time by Martin Wattenberg.
  • Images Without Information - exactly what it sounds like. An early example of a metacatena.
  • Internet Art movies - created by Dania Tsamoutali Volioti The water of the island [1], Inner world is mirrored in the face [2] - [3], Living with pills [4] - mailto:internet.art@gmail.com.
  • Interversion - Version : exhibitions on digital and video art held in Geneva Switzerland.
  • Irational.org - founded in 1995, irational.org creates work that pushes the boundaries between the corporate realms of business, art and engineering. Core members are heath bunting, rachel baker, minerva cuevas, daniel garcía andújar and marcus valentine.
  • Jaka Zeleznikar - mostly on-line art/language works that further the traditions of conceptual art and traditions of visual/concrete, combinatory, generative and interactive poetry.
  • JODI - Joan Heemskerk (the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (Belgium), are among the most well-known Internet artists. Since the mid-1990s they create web projects, absurd software, game hacks and physical installations using archaic computer screen imagery, references to computer viruses, crashes and error messages. The irrational navigation principles in their works are quite confusing; they try to construct an 'anti-interface.'
  • LA Freewaves - experimental media arts festival with online archive and media arts resources
  • Low-fi - net art locator - launched 2000. low-fi is an art collective collating, commissioning and commenting on net art.
  • Machfeld - net-based and interactive art since 1999
  • Michaelmedia.org - A polyphonic chronicle, all (net based) art projects since 1995 by Michiel Knaven
  • Mouchette - web art project by an adult male artist pretending to be a 13 year-old French girl.
  • nowikonik.com - Immersive, Interactive, Internet based artworks and online video.
  • Mo|ve.men|tion - Mez's Internet Art repository for her hybrid networked language mezangelle, 1995 - 2005+.
  • Mysterious Yanick D - Eletronic work by French Canadian artist Yanick Desrosiers since 1997 .
  • No Memory - a net-conceptual art production from 1995 by Valéry Grancher.
  • nujus.net - G.H. Hovagimyan & Peter Sinclair

O-T

  • Stunned.orginternet art since 1998, based in Dublin Ireland, home of the Net Art Open.
  • ØtherLands aka 'Equator' - the earliest database-driven online hypercinema collaboration produced by documenta x with Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Udo Noll, Felix Stephan Huber and Øthers. It began a series of 'situative' cyber+realspace public installations.
  • poietic-generator - since 1986, real time collective interaction, art & science research on collective phenomena.
  • The Infinite People Project - a collaborative project of people looking at people.
  • Pleine-peau.com - since 1994, the French net art revue of international reputation.
  • Portland Public Art
  • Prate™ Computer Channel
  • SITO - internet art since 1993. Special focus on collaborative projects.
  • Sketchzilla - constantly changing content by community via HTML.
  • Terraza - Terraza is an art collective in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • The ArtBoom - an on-going family tree of the art world started by Yucef Merhi in 1999 using the prototype of the first wristwatch-camera.
  • The story of net art - an open-source list of net art projects organized by year of creation, 1994-2000.
  • The photographic stall - since 2004 order your picture, it will be sent to you as soon as possible and displayed on this web site.
  • Rhizome.org: Online platform for the global new media art community. Supports the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Published three times a week, Net Art News focuses on a single new media art related event, exhibition or project.
  • Today's Spam - Generative Spam Art Blog: word patterns culled from each full day of spams, with weekly MP3/JPG summaries.
  • Site Específico - Brazilian collective of virtual artists working on internet art, new media and cultural experimentation.
  • The Thing - Started in 1993 by Wolfgang Staehle as a bbs, the thing is an international community of net artists and projects.
  • Turbulence - Turbulence.org commissions and exhibits internet art. Founded in 1996, it is now one of the preeminent sites for Internet art.
  • rent-a-negro.com a web site using satire to explore race relations
  • Teleferique - Teleferique independent and collective downloading server from 1999 to 2005. Based in France, core members are Sonia Marques, Robin Fercoq, Etienne Cliquet, Makoto Yoshihara and erational.

U-Ž

  • UNMOVIE - python/flash datoid-base cinema, a 'stage' of bots 24/7 online co-writing the Script with users, connecting to a 'stream', streaming since 10.11.2002, of poetically indexed 'found' net-videos. collaboration with Axel Heide, onesandzeros, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle and Øthers.
  • VERTISSAGE KVE EDITION - A web-mediated globo-social structure, initiated and moderated by Reiner F. Schulz, with artists of the Kunstverein Erlangen/ Germany and sick bag collectors all over the world.
  • Web Stalker - created by the London-based artist group I/O/D in 1998 - an alternative, simple browser which creates maps of websites instead of displaying separate pages.
  • Year Zero One - founded in 1996, Year Zero One is a media arts collective committed to the production, development and distribution of electronic media art through net based projects and site-specific public art exhibitions.

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See also

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References

  • Art Servers Unlimited, ed. Manu Luksch, Armin Medosch (1998) http://asu.sil.at ISBN 899858985
  • Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001). net.art 2.0 – Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials towards Net art. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN 3933096669.
  • Wilson, Stephen (2001). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. ISBN 026223209X.
  • Net Art Review a daily updated site that tries to keep pace with what is happening in the world of netart: netartreview
  • The syndicate network for media culture and media art : http://anart.no/~syndicatede:Netzkunst

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