Internet art

Internet art is in the broadest sense.

Internet art can take concrete form in artistic websites, E-mail art, artistic Internet software, Internet-based or networked installations, online video, audio or radio works, networked performances and installations or performances offline. Internet art as a movement is part of new media art and electronic art. A few sub-genres of Internet art are software art, generative art, net.radio, browser art, web-specific art, spam art and code poetry.

In literature, the terms Internet art , Internet-based art , net art , net.art , Web art and artists working with networks are used together; not any of those names has predominated until now. Some feel the term .

=History and context=

Internet art is rooted in a variety of artistic traditions and movements. Some Internet art projects are particularly related to -based [http://www.ircam.fr/ IRCAM], a research center for electronic music. The fact that both the computer and the internet have become a common, accessible technology has opened this formerly high tech art circuit up to a much broader field of artists.

Internet art was most visible and witnessed its peak from , Felix Stephan Huber, Wolfgang Staehle, Gregor Stehle and Florian Wenz.

=Artists and projects=

A-D

[http://www.adaweb.com Ada Web] - an important early gallery of internet art, now part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center.

[http://www.dom.de/acircle Arctic Circle] - a Net-critical cyber-roadmovie through the Canadian Artic and along the Infobahn from 1995 by Philip Pocock and Felix Stephan Huber.

[http://www.betaspace.org/ BetaSpace.org] - is an evolving venue for new media artists and artwork.

[http://buyorbeware.com/ Buyorbeware.com] - An examination of corporations and consumption in the age of the internet.

[http://www.computerfinearts.com Computer Fine Arts] - online netart collection.

[http://www.ctrlaltdel.org ctrlaltdel.org] - contains all net based art projects from 1995 by Peter Luining.

[http://www.dispatx.com/ Dispatx.com] - Independent organisation curating, developing & promoting contemporary art and literature.

[http://www.documenta12.de/archiv/dx/ DocumentaX] - the first international art event including internet art, now as an archive.

E-H

[http://www.erational.org Erational] - generative interface and software art.

[http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield] - since 1997 Furtherfield has been an online platform for the creation, promotion, and criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing, experience and interaction.

[http://www.humbot.org Humbot] - a Kohonen SOM movie-mapping collaboration by Daniel Burckhardt, Gruppo A12, Udo Noll, Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Wolfgang Stehle.

I-N

Internet Art movies - created by [http://www.dania.name Dania Tsamoutali Volioti] The water of the island [http://www.sonic.gr/movies/water.htm], Inner world is mirrored in the face [http://www.sonic.gr/movies/inner.htm] - [http://www.sonic.gr/movies/inner_sonic.avi], Living with pills [http://www.sonic.gr/movies/pills.htm] - [mailto:internet.art@gmail.com].

[http://www.interversion.org/n2lib/display/version.phpkatid=1 Interversion] - Version : exhibitions on digital and video art held in Geneva Switzerland.

[http://www.irational.org/ Irational.org] - founded in 1995, irational.org creates work that pushes the boundaries between the corporate realms of business, art and engineering. Core members are heath bunting, rachel baker, minerva cuevas, daniel garcía andújar and marcus valentine.

[http://www.jaka.org/ Jaka Zeleznikar] - mostly on-line art/language works that further the traditions of conceptual art and traditions of visual/concrete, combinatory, generative and interactive poetry.

Jodi - Joan Heemskerk (the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (Belgium), are among the most well-known Internet artists. Since the mid-1990s they create [http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ web projects], [http://oss.jodi.org/ absurd software], game hacks and physical installations using archaic computer screen imagery, references to computer viruses, crashes and error messages. The irrational navigation principles in their works are quite confusing; they try to construct an anti-interface.

[http://www.low-fi.org.uk Low-fi] - net art locator - launched 2000. low-fi is an art collective collating, commissioning and commenting on net art.

[http://www.machfeld.net Machfeld] - net-based and interactive art since 1999

[http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/ Mo|ve.men|tion] - Mez s Internet Art repository for her hybrid networked language mezangelle, 1995 - 2005+.

[http://www.doctorhugo.org/index.html Museums of the Mind] - a web project by Dr. Hugo Heyrman (Belgium): exploring the telematic future of art and mind. Online since 1995.

[http://www.nomemory.org No Memory] - a net-conceptual art production from 1995 by Valéry Grancher.

O-T

[http://www.aporee.org/equator Ã?therLands aka Equator ] - the earliest database-driven online hypercinema collaboration produced by documenta x with Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Udo Noll, Felix Stephan Huber and Ã?thers. It began a series of situative cyber+realspace public installations.

[http://poietic-generator.net poietic-generator] Real time collective interaction

[http://pleine-peau.com Pleine-peau.com] - since 1994, the french net art revue of international reputation.

SITO - internet art since 1993. Special focus on collaborative projects.

[http://www.terrazared.com.ar/ Terraza] - Terraza is an art collective in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[http://www.ArtBoom.net The ArtBoom] - an on-going family tree of the art world started by Yucef Merhi in 1999 using the prototype of the first wristwatch-camera.

[http://www.calarts.edu/~line/history.html The story of net art] - an open-source list of net art projects organized by year of creation, 1994-2000.

[http://spamtoday.blogspot.com Today s Spam] - Generative Spam Art Blog: word patterns culled from each full day of spams, with weekly MP3/JPG summaries.

[http://www.siteespecifico.org Site Específico] - Brazilian collective of virtual artists working on internet art, new media and cultural experimentation.

[http://www.turbulence.org Turbulence] - Turbulence.org commissions and exhibits internet art. Founded in 1996, it is now one of the preeminent sites for Internet art.

[http://www.teleferique.org Teleferique] - Teleferique independant and collective downloading server from 1999 to 2005. Based in France, core members are Robin Fercoq, Etienne Cliquet, Makoto Yoshihara and erational.

U-

[http://unmovie.net UNMOVIE] - python/flash datoid-base cinema, a stage of bots 24/7 online co-writing the Script with users, connecting to a stream , streaming since 10.11.2002, of poetically indexed found net-videos. collaboration with Axel Heide, onesandzeros, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle and Ã?thers.

[http://bak.spc.org/iod/ Web Stalker] - created by the London-based artist group I/O/D in 1998 - an alternative, simple browser which creates maps of websites instead of displaying separate pages.

0-9

[http://www.0waldo.com 0waldo geometric art] - Original (a)symmertical art by Walter Muncaster - since 1996.

=See also=

Digital art

Cyberculture

=References=

Art Servers Unlimited, ed. Manu Luksch, Armin Medosch (1998) http://asu.sil.at ISBN 899858985

Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001). net.art 2.0 – Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials towards Net art . Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN 3933096669.

Wilson, Stephen (2001). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. ISBN 026223209X.

Net Art Review a daily updated site that tries to keep pace with what is happening in the world of netart: [http://www.netartreview.net netartreview]

The syndicate network for media culture and media art : http://anart.no/~syndicate