Reading Blog #3

The article discusses the history of net art and how it changed over the course of a few decades. It certainly waned in relevance constantly coming and going but the original source seems to be an accident altogether. Net art doesn't quite seem to be the results of placing things together but rather the process. It was about the merging of different medias and items and how those could be interpreted among artists as interactions between communities and people. If find the technical aspect to be rather interesting. The artworld is constantly connected and the quote that comes to mind is "good artists copy, great artists steal." I think this is a prime example of how net artists saw each others works and started creating more and more. I knew about how the internet started but the visual design aspect completely went over my head. How we interact with the web is just as important as how we see it and how we access it. So when the art becomes the act of interacting, that itself is revolutionary and almost akin to performance art. Some net art like 7-11 was a combined effort of people just interacting with it everyday. To me this didn't appear as art, but if the act of creating is art whether the source is original or not, then this certainly relates to problems we see today regarding AI. While the things that it creates isn't necessarily made by our own hands, the idea is there and that is original. Sometimes just the idea needs to be abstract to produce great art.