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Art in cyberspace

May 3, 09:08 PM · Jo Choi

Internet art is art and cultural arena in which net artists and curators can communicate and interact by utilizing it as a primary medium. Fruitful, open-ended with infinite creative possibilities artistic activities between artists and audiences in the Digital Art World are also facilitated. (Gauntlett and Horsley 2004; Temple, Darach and Rosch 2004) Indeed, Internet art has become a major movement with audience all over the world. It is identified that the successful and well-constructed online works can even use diverse paths to navigate, recombine images in a hypertext environment by which unique forms of community of a global audience is created. Obviously, owing to the intrinsic interactive character of Internet artworks existing in online communities, the distinctions made hitherto between artists and audience can be abolished. Internet becomes a social mechanism. (Ippolito 2002)

Kac suggests that Internet with great hypermedia quality enables the exchange of messages between distant people. Its wide-ranging and wide-spreading broadcasting feature brings about different forms of interactive Internet art. Meanwhile, dialogue and debate around art issues are also stimulated. Furthermore, different media artists would break out barriers from geographical locations, physical presence, and cultural bias and work in collaboration to nurture the Art world. So, the decrepitude of unidirectional and highly centralized forms of media and communication can be inhibited. (Kac 1995)

Digital Artworks

Undoubtedly, Internet art has become more popular in our everyday life. In order to gain a wider acceptance of mainstream to a larger culture, it is vital to consider the quality of the content, the innovation, the creativity and the sense of novelty finally leading to a contribution to the society. (Sisario 2004) Simultaneously, some aspects which cannot be overlooked: the emergence of incomprehensible digital artworks abstracting the Art world and the enormous amount of reproducible artworks – all are harmful to the Art world as well as the enhancement of the intellectual human development. (Gauntlett and Horsley 2004)

An Internet art project: Whitney Artport The Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art

References:
Gauntlett D. and Horsley R. (2004). Web.Studies, New York: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Limited.

Jon Ippolito (2002). Ten Myths of Internet Art. Source: LEONARDO, Vol. 35. No. 5, pp. 485-498. Last accessed: 05.04.2007

Temple N., Darach J., Rosch V. (ED) (2004). the:global:ideas:book, London: Institute for Social Inventions.

 

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