Sunday, February 19, 2012

Telematic art

The agreement Internet art, net-based art, net art, Net.art, Web art, and even networked art accept all been acclimated to allocate this blazon of work. However, the appellation networked art has a history of acceptance for artworks that were affiliated through bankrupt networks afore the Internet's popularization and commercialization in the aboriginal 1990s, such as abounding Telematic art projects.1 Net.art (pronounced "Net-dot-art") was a added accepted appellation in the 1990s, generally apropos to some of the aboriginal net artists who were critiquing the structures of the Internet.4improper synthesis?

Critic Rachel Greene states that the appellation originated "when Slovenian artisan Vuk Cosic opened an bearding e-mail alone to acquisition it had been burst in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could accomplish out just one clear appellation —'net.art'—which he began application to allocution about online art and communications."2 Greene lists several artists as aboriginal experimenters of the form: Vuk Ćosić, Jodi, Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting, Shu Lea Cheang, VNS Matrix and Olia Lialina. In her book Internet Art, Green places the birth of Internet art afterwards 1993, with the popularization of graphical web browsing.5

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