What Counts As Net Art? >>
Sara Diamond
Christiane Paul
Mark Tribe
The Webby Awards are marketed as the web equivalent of the Oscars but of course
they are nothing of the sort. Still, every year one category gets the attention
of the net population more than others and that's the Art category. With name
artists like Laurie Anderson and David Bowie helping make the decisions, how can
it not? When it came time to picking the winner of the web art award for 2001,
the distinguished panel of net art judges carried on an interesting email
dialogue among themselves that Rhizome Director Mark Tribe was kind enough to
share excerpts of. And the winner is...? Net art -- of course.
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[Intro] [from the site:] "I'm deeply concerned about the message we're sending with
giving HI the top prize. We are all very immersed into this art form, so for
many of us a work like HI (a net film one doesn't see too often) may be
refreshing. For the public at large and the artists, however, this may look very
different. In many of the recent reviews of web-based art written by traditional
art critics in traditional media, I've read the following again and again: what
they considered to be the most successful pieces were the ones that 'finally'
looking more like traditional art ('it looks more like painting') and were 'not
about the technology' (which unfortunately most of the time meant not using the
medium)."
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