In my Digital Art class, I had the opportunity to read an article published by Artforum called Web Work: A History Of Internet Art written by Rachael Greene. This article discusses the significance of Internet Art along with the phrase “Net.art”. This form of art hasn't been around for long but a lot has been done in the time since its existence. I found the introduction to the article to be fascinating in the sense that I had no idea this phenomenon all started with one person's email. Its unreal how many online communities there are that I am not familiar with. One point that the author made which stood out to me was the fact that the internet was not as crowded at one time as it is now. Every day more and more websites, images, and videos are uploaded to the internet. Recognition for digital art seems to be unrecognized in a sense. I think that one of the overall themes of this article comes back to the question, “what is art?”. Everyone has a different idea of what makes art, and when it comes to the digital world it seems to be even more of an abstract concept. The net media art world is something that I plan to learn more about and experiment with due to the fact that I am now in a digital art class which I have learned to really appreciate. When I first heard the phrase online art, I thought of the neon cat that would just shoot a rainbow out and fly in space. I remember this being a sensation at the time I first learned about it. It seems that there is a much deeper meaning to digital art now.
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