nytimes: net art dead
The New York Times has pronounced the net art movement (strictly speaking, works that’re available only online, preferably exhibited in a gallery on a late-model Apple product) over.
I sure hope they’re wrong…I mean, even the article admits it’s primarily due to economic concerns, the across-the-board cuts in public and private arts funding brought by the dep recession. After all, we’ve hardly scratched the surface of what we can do with colons, forward- and backslashes, brackets, parentheses, randomly-mixed upper- and lower-case letters, numbers that sort of look like letters, “cartoon cursing” punctuation….