Network Installations, Creative Exhibitionism and Virtual Republishing >>
Mark Amerika
Perhaps the first online essay to address net art and the exhibition context.
IN 1997, Alt-X, which had already acheived an international reputation as one of
the most prolific and iconoclastic web sites focusing on hypertext, avant-pop
fiction, and critical theory, launched what many believe to be the first
large-scale net art exhibition with keynote essays by Roy Ascott, Rhizome's Alex
Galloway and this essay from Alt-X Director Mark Amerika.
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||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr
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[Intro] [from the opening:]
"So much of our commercial and potentially-subversive art today is being
developed with software application programs that encourage the liberal usage of
Modernistic practices (particularly sampling, collage, technological gimmickry
and other "engineered" behaviors), we tend to forget that what we are doing is
not necessarily all that new and that if we're looking for deep structural
changes in the art work of today as opposed to even ten or twenty years ago,
then we're more likely to find these changes in the mediums through which
contemporary art gets distributed and how the emerging network culture radically
transforms the way in which we participate in the dual worlds of art-making and
art-appreciating."
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