Net.art refers to a group of artists who have worked in the medium of internet art since 1984. net.art is more of a movement and a critical and political landmark in Internet art history, than a specific genre. The term "net.art" was used by nettime initiator Pit Schultz as a title for an exhibition in Berlin in 1995, in which Vuk Cosic and Alexei Shulgin both showed their work. It was later used regarding the "net.art per se" meeting of artists and theorists in Trieste in May 1996 and referred to a group of artists who worked together closely in the first half of the 1990s. These meetings gave birth to the website net.art per se, a fake CNN website "commemorating" the event.