Evolution Of Internet Art

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Internet Art’s evolution and motivation from the 1990s to the present

While many negatives are discussed on the effects the digital revolution has had in every aspect of society since the 1980s, it is difficult to list negatives when it comes to art, as what it did for it was create so many possibilities for the new. In the realm of art it brought both digital tools to create existing, traditional forms of art like illustration with software like MS Paint, Photoshop and Paint Tool Sai and graphics tablets like Wacom’s, as well as opened the door to new modes of expression using new technology as a new media, where digital technology is used to create everything from performance art, installation and conceptual art and various forms of …show more content…

The internet gave art an unprecedented opportunity to shape a new medium as it was born and through its formative years.(Ippolito). , net art includes a wide range of works created by artists using web browsers, developer codes, scripts, search engines, and various other online tools (“Net Art”)

Three main traits of internet art are its immediacy, its immateriality and its temporality. (“Introduction to net.art”). As updates, patches and new versions roll in a lot of net art becomes inaccessible, broken pages, kinks and expired image and web hosts. Although there are sites that dedicate themselves to collecting and displaying screenshots of what sites looked like at a specific time and date, a screenshot is not the same experience as being on a site …show more content…

And is still popular in niche areas of the internet in a nostalgic way, is using characters to form images,
Experimentation with web pages and hyperlinks
Mailing lists, performance thru them

ASCII art, ASCII standing for American Standard Code for information exchange, a table of letters,numbers and symbols created in 1963, refers to images composed entirely by ASCII symbols. (chris.com) Images created when computers were only able to display characters and not graphics , had been experimented with since the 70s but had a resurgence in the early days of net art, when emails could not load images imbedded in them and images would take an hour to download. ASCII art is still very popular today in niche circles, artists creating images of popular culture characters every day.

Browser art transfroms the code and strcuture of websites, and the links between servers, mangling pages by “reading code the wrong way” (“Browser Art”).
Projects like the now defunct Absurd.otg, where window pop ups appeared unprompted and went beyond the parameters of the browser, scaring users when it appeared to take over their computer. (“Absurd”) . Browser art like this tend to resemble a virus taking over your computer and having no control over your

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