Work that uses the Internet as a primary medium of art from
the 1990s through
the early 2000s

Introduction to Net.art (1994-1999)

Natalie Bookchin is an interdisciplinary artist widely recognized for her innovative media artworks. Over the last three decades she has made single and multi-channel video and sound installations, films, interactive installations, photographs, performances, texts, net art, online computer games, embroidery, drawing, and hacktivist public interventions. Her most notable work collaborated with Alexei Shulgin, Introduction to Net.art (1994-1999), where it served as a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek manifesto for the net.art scene of the 90’s.

My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (1996)

Olia Lialina was a pioneer of net art, she is well known for her famous browser-art piece, My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (1996). The work comprises multiple black-and-white hyperlinked frames of images and text through which viewers can navigate different narrative pathways. Lialina is also known for using herself as a model in experimentations with animated GIFs and is credited with founding one of the earliest web galleries, Art Teleportacia, which she uses to exhibit her own work.

ASCII Rock (2003)

Yoshi Sodeoka is a New York-based digital video artist who draws from his background and love of music to inspire his psychedelic prints and animations. Sodeoka often converted a collection of classic rock videos, like in his most notable work, ASCII Rock (2003), to display in terminal style moving ASCII art, accompanied by renditions of the original songs.

Internet Art is a very visually interesting art form. I like how it has made art more accessible and helped to diversify the arts.