Re: [microsound] speaking of net.art...

[derek <derek@xxxxxxx>]

kim,

thanks for posting this. we're hoping to get the word out far and wide.

for a more historical survey, please see Bookchin and Shulgin's 
tongue-in-cheek "Introduction to net.art (1994-1999)":

http://www.easylife.org/netart/

---derek

Kim Cascone wrote:

>Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']"
>
>Deadline: April 1, 2003  http://www.impakt.nl
>
>No longer content with pure formalism and self-referentiality, and
>unwilling to be dismissed into the simple catagory of "graphic
>design", net.art is redefining itself in the realm of social critique
>and commentary. The old elements of hyperlink, the embedded images
>and sounds, the database and the live stream all remain in place, as
>do the digital pranks, parasitic spoofs and deliberate 'errors' which
>gave early net.art its timeliness and humour. Their scope, however,
>has been refocused and their use redefined in recent years to a
>razor-sharp critique of technological "progress", globalization, and
>the ever-present machinery of surveillance and control which the
>internet has helped to usher in.
>
>  
>

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