NETART

THE TERM “NET.ART” is the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make out just one legible term—“net. art”—which he began using to talk about online art and communications. Spreading like a virus among certain interconnected Internet communities, the term was quickly enlisted to describe a variety of everyday activities.

I really liked Paul Garrin's idea of breaking down the control business and bring and new hope to the artistic world, with the innovation of the internet.

The idea of having the internet as a platform for interaction between artists fascinated me. Imagine being able to focus only on art on the world wide web without being distracted by multiple ads and catchy pages that are taking you away from your artistic goal.

In 1996 it was clear that Internet technologies were fast becoming cultural and economic phenomenas, and the digital economy seemed to offer mysterious new financial possibilities, even for niche content providers and artists.

Very interesting how Europe was a very important place for the developing of the internet and its worldwide success. Bringing artists together as a new wave of an art movement, Net.Art became the futuristic platform that gave space to artist wanting to develop a worldwide success and spread their art around the world.