| Just a few more thoughts on the Net Art thing, while I'm thinking about it.
Early Net Art was made by software writers who knew their way around the tools, hence the prevalence of flow charts, clickable steps, etc built into the art. Now, more artists are just working with the tools (image making, sound making software) and using the Net as a delivery system. This newer work is less about commenting on, reproducing or "deconstructing" the tools, or the Net itself, although those concerns do (and should) linger, since proprietary programs are controlling and kind of evil.
Early Net Art was made in a era of limited bandwidth, hence the prevalence of ASCII drawings and text in the "look" of it.
Bandwidth-hogging current Art on the Net (as opposed to Net Art) is aimed at an "elite net" of broadband users.
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Early Net Art was made by software writers who knew their way around the tools, hence the prevalence of flow charts, clickable steps, etc built into the art. Now, more artists are just working with the tools (image making, sound making software) and using the Net as a delivery system. This newer work is less about commenting on, reproducing or "deconstructing" the tools, or the Net itself, although those concerns do (and should) linger, since proprietary programs are controlling and kind of evil.
Early Net Art was made in a era of limited bandwidth, hence the prevalence of ASCII drawings and text in the "look" of it.
Bandwidth-hogging current Art on the Net (as opposed to Net Art) is aimed at an "elite net" of broadband users.
- tom moody 4-07-2004 8:44 pm