Examples of Net Art
Dive into the history and creativity of art made for and by the internet.
Net art is using a computer in some way and made in different forms such as connectivity, global reach, and interactivity"
THE TERM “NET.ART” is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an anonymous e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make out just one legible term—“net.art”—which he began using to talk about online art and communications. Spreading like a virus among certain interconnected Internet communities, the term was quickly enlisted to describe a variety of everyday activities. Net.art stood for communications and graphics, e-mail, texts and images, referring to and merging into one another; it was artists, enthusiasts, and technoculture critics trading ideas, sustaining one another’s interest through ongoing dialogue. Net.art meant online détournements, discourse instead of singular texts or images, defined more by links, e-mails, and exchanges than by any “optical” aesthetic. Whatever images of net.art projects grace these pages, beware that, seen out of their native HTML, out of their networked, social habitats, they are the net.art equivalents of animals in zoos.
ASCII art, computer text art created with ASCII (American Standard Code For Information Interchange) code
I think net art is very fun and interesting to look at. As I was looking at different types of net arts, the ones that ive enjoyed the most are the interactive kind. What stood out to me the most was the surveillance net art picece where you can live chat on a piece.