Yeah, I was wondering who you were directing those comments at, Paddy. I am not sure anyone in this conversation has stated that net art in a gallery will never work. We started this a couple of posts back so maybe you missed the beginning. Anyway, I do want to ask you if you consider Net art a movement like Minimalism or simply a media like painting? From your comment it sounds as though you do. Couldn't there be a distinction between a Pop oriented digital practice(Cory Arcangel) and a Minimalist digital practice(Moody)? Then we have the issue of those who write the code, those who manipulate existing code, and those who simply use the end-user software. A gaming cartridge hack, like Arcangel's Super Mario World, isn't Net.art. proper, but his recent Suicide Letter vs.GoogleAdSense certainly is. Both works bring to mind various Post Structuralist ideas. I think a convincing argument could be made that he is mining a Post Modernist vein; appropriation, equating of high and low cultures, etc.
Can these works be assessed like a painting? Well, not formally, but why would anyone want to? However they can be related to through cultural theory, the same theories that underpin most painting from the last 30 or so years.
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Can these works be assessed like a painting? Well, not formally, but why would anyone want to? However they can be related to through cultural theory, the same theories that underpin most painting from the last 30 or so years.
- Robert Huffmann 6-13-2006 8:40 am