net.art

net.art refers to an artistic movement that emerged in the context of Internet art in the mid-1990s. The artists most commonly associated with the movement include Vuk Ćosić, Jodi, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina and Heath Bunting. Although they shared an interest in the Internet as an artistic and communicative medium, their individual practices differed considerably. The term "net.art" is also used as a synonym for net art or Internet art and covers a much wider range of artistic practices. In this wider definition, net.art means art that uses the Internet as its medium and that cannot be experienced in any other way. Typically net.art has the Internet and the specific socio-culture that it spawned as its subject matter but this is not required. The German critic Tilman Baumgärtel - building on the ideas of American critic Clement Greenberg - has frequently argued for a "media specificity" of net.art in his writings. According to the introduction to his book "net.art. Materialien zur Netzkunst", the specific qualities of net.art are "connectivity, global reach, multimediality, immateriality, interactivity and egality".¶

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