Beyond interface >>
Steve Dietz
Steve Dietz was one of the first institutionally-affiliated voices to give net
art its due course. In this landmark essay which accompanied the
historic "beyond interface" exhibition at the Museums and the Web conference in
the early part of 1998, Dietz outlines the differences between the various
forms of net art that were the first to emerge in the mid to late Nineties.
Focusing his lens on digital narrative, Euro-influenced net.art, performance,
and the meta-mediumistic implications of a network art scene taking cultural
production and distribution into its own hands and putting the work on their
own servers, Dietz asks us to rethink the visual in digital culture.
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[Intro] [from the site:] "beyond interface's approach to what constitutes net art can
perhaps be best defined as 'exploratory.' In the call for submissions, I wrote
'beyond interface is an online exhibition of juried and curated net art projects
for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of
viewing/experiencing/participating. As might be expected with a term like
"necessary," we quickly ran into the fact that much of the work we were
interested in could be run off a local set up. You could, in theory, mail disks
of these programs to anyone that wanted them, instead of delivering the work via
the Net. We could have gone on like this for a long time.'
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