In his essay The < body > of Net Art TCR 2-50 Jim Andrews reviews writings and artworks that share a creative interest in exploring these key aspects of the Web as important aesthetic qualities. He writes:
What I’ve tried to do here is look at the main types of resources and storage that contemporary net art has available to it. The notion of a networked application is not a new one but there are not many that can be considered dynamite works of net art. It takes longer for the artistic imagination to acclimatize to new media than it does to create the technology behind it. Net art often requires significant skills in programming. Few contemporary artists have the necessary training. It will be interesting to see how the next generation of poet-programmers and artists influence digital culture.
It seems likely that computing devices will continue to proliferate within all machinery and become far more portable than they are now. Desktops have been replaced by laptops but the future probably includes devices constituted of a pair of glasses, two super-sensitive glove-like sensors, and possibly a microphone. We will be connected to the net on any stroll through the neighborhood, and objects will transmit their data and methods via the glasses we wear. The < body > of net art will eventually involve our own bodies in their connection to the rest of the network architecture.
Jim Andrews / The < body > of Net Art
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