Re: [microsound] Net-Art vs electronic music

[Niklas Werner <bergtroll@xxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 17:37, Ian Andrews wrote:
> Niklas Wernerwrote:
> > What makes net-art what it is in the first place?
>
> Well first there's net-art (art on the net) and then there's net.art
> which is more like "the net" as art. Net-art, I suppose, can be
> anything that is art and is on the net.  Net.art, on the other hand, is
> more like mail-art in the sense that mail artists used the postal
> system not only for the delivery of art but as the material basis of
> their art. envelopes, postage stamps, ink stamps and the service itself
> constituted mail-art's palette and canvas.
Yes, most definitely, and Net.art is what is really interesting and bound 
to explore new ways of looking at the Net, isn't it?

I do give due credit to http://www.peopleagainstthings.com/ for doing 
exactly this.

But my point was that much of the pieces called net-art, basically are 
video-art and are not including any aesthetic values of the net. They 
only use the net as a distribution medium. So the genre Net-art, as 
defined by Ian, is just as much about the net, as a picture driven from 
one museum to another in a truck is about street-art. 

All this obviously calls for a definition of the aesthetic values on/via 
a/the Net. (The problem we are facing here is that the over-use of all 
the nice buzz-words like interactivity and multi-media forces one to 
narrow the terms down to a once again accessible term.)

And this is most interesting to me (and the list?) regarding the musical 
part.

Does the mode of communication in newsgroups and IRC-channels influence 
the way net-music is made or are composers unaware of the parts of the 
internet that are not dominated by "best viewed with IE7.8"-buttons?

Isn't Code-art(beautifully or extremely smartly written programming code) 
very similar in aproach to serial/algorithmic music?

just a few starting thoughts here.

Cheers

Niklas


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