Hello, World: Let's (re)Make Networked Art ◣
Image by MAX CAPACITY After much second-guessing, I've published a big piece on Medium today about my belief that Net(worked) Art still lives as a movement, making the continued existence of cooperative, creative practices of [and by] the web more essential than ever. This post was based on the visionary work of the crazy web/trans/media folk I've been able to dream and build with lately around the world, especially the #ARTOFWEB community who helped bring together the Mozilla Festival's first-ever Art and Culture track to the shores of London this year, and taught me so much in the process. It's a 10 minute read in 6 chapters, the perfect amount of time for a coffee. It opened up some pretty interesting debates as it made the rounds this morning, so I'd love to hear your thoughts (and criticisms!). While this is an area I'm passionate about, I am cognizant that I, like everyone in my "post-post net-art"generation, have much more to learn. And in the end, that's a part of the fun. "As the hardwares and softwares of computers give us new capabilities… we have to learn to feel with them. If we can’t feel with them, they are only dumb metal claws. Therefore, the vistas of digital art are only as wide as our potential to grasp those possibilities with full human expressiveness.” — Jim Andrews, “Why I Am A Net Artist”, 2011