NET.ART

MANIFIESTO DEL NET.ART
Natalie Bookchin-Alexel Shulgin (1994-1999)

NET.ART
a. net.art is a self-defining term created by a malfunctioning piece of software, originally used to describe an art and communications activity on the internet.

b. net.artists sought to break down autonomous disciplines and outmoded classifications imposed upon various activists practices.

a. By maintaining independence from institutional bureaucracies

b. By working without marginalization and achieving substantial audience, communication, dialogue and fun

c. By realizing ways out of entrenched values arising from structured system of theories and ideologies
8br /> d. T.A.Z. (temporary autonomous zone) of the late 90s: Anarchy and spontaneity

a. The utopian aim of closing the ever widening gap between art and everyday life, perhaps, for the first time, was achieved and became a real, everyday and even routine practice.

b. Beyond institutional critique: whereby an artist/individual could be equal to and on the same level as any institiution or corporation.

c. The practical death of the author

1. Definition2. 0% Compromise3. Realization over Theorization

a. Movement from initial feeding ground of the net

a. Internet as a medium for production, publication, distribution, promotion, dialogue, consumption and critique

b. Disintegration and mutation of artist, curator, pen-pal, audience, gallery, theorist, art collector, and museum

1. Formation of communities of artists across nations and disciplines

2. Investment without material interest

3. Collaboration without consideration of appropriation of ideas

4. Privileging communication over representation

5. Immediacy

6. Immateriality

7. Temporality

8. Process based action

9. Play and performance without concern or fear of historical consequences 10. Parasitism as Stratecy11. Vanishing boundaries between private and public

12. All in One:

A. The Ultimate ModernismB. Specific Features of net.art

a. Macintosh with 68040 processor or higher (or PC with 486 processor or higher)

b. At least 8 MB RAM

c. Modem or other internet connection

a. Text Editor

b. Image processor

c. At least one of the following internet clients: Netscape, Eudora, Fetch, etc.

d. Sound and video editor (optional)

1. Obtain access to a computer with the following configuration:2. Software Requirements

1. Content based

2. Formal

3. Ironic

4. Poetic

5. Activist

1. Subversion

2. Net as Object

3. Interaction

4. Streaming

5. Travel Log

6. Telepresent Collaboration

7. Search Engine

8. Sex

9. Storytelling

10. Pranks and Fake Identity Construction

11. Interface Production and/or Deconstruction

12. ASCII Art

13. Browser Art, On-line Software Art

14. Form Art

15. Multi-User Interactive Environments

16. CUSeeMe, IRC, Email , ICQ, Mailing List Art

A. Preparing Your EnvironmentB. Chose ModeC. Chose GenreD. Production

1. net.art is undertaking major transformations as a result of its newfound status and institutional recognition.

2. Thus net.art is metamorphisizing into an autonomous discipline with all its accouterments: theorists, curators, museum departments, specialists, and boards of directors.

a. The production of objects, display in a gallery

b. Archiving and preservation

a. Work outside the institution

b. Claim that the institution is evil

c. Challenge the institution

d. Subvert the institution

e. Make yourself into an institution

f. Attract the attention of the institution

g. Rethink the institution

h. Work inside the institution

a. The demand to follow in the trail of corporate production in order to remain up-to-date and visible

b. The utilization of radical artistic strategies for product promotion

1. Movement from impermanence, immateriality and immediacy to materialization2. Interface with Institutions: The Cultural Loop3. Interface with Corporations: Upgrade

A. Current StatusB. Materialization and Demise

a. Physical

b. Virtual

1. Attend and participate in major media art festivals, conferences and exhibitions.2. Do not under any circumstances admit to paying entry fees, travel expenses or hotel accommodations.

3. Avoid traditional forms of publicity. e.g. business cards.

4. Do not readily admit to any institutional affiliation.

5. Create and control your own mythology.

6. Contradict yourself periodically in email, articles, interviews and in informal off-the-record conversation.

7. Be sincere.

8. Shock.

9. Subverp (self and others).

10. Maintain consistency in image and work.

1. Bandwidth

2. Girl or boy friends

3. Hits on search engines

4. Hits on your sites

5. Links to your site

6. Invitations
8br /> 7. E-mail

8. Airplane tickets

9. Money

A. Promotional TechniquesB. Success Indicators: Upgrade 2

1. Largely resulting from the horizontal rather than vertical distribution of information on the internet.

2. Thus disallowing one dominant voice to rise above multiple, simultaneous and diverse expressions.

a. Unannounced

b. Uninvited

c. Unexpected

1. The formation of organizations avoiding the promotion of proper names

2. The bypassing of art institutions and the direct targeting of corporate products, mainstream media, creative sensibilities and hegemonic ideologies3. No longer needing the terms “art” or “politics” to legitimize, justify or excuse one’s activities

a. Who mutates and transforms as quickly and cleverly as that which seeks to consume her

b. Who does not fear or accept labeling or unlabeling

c. Who works freely in completely new forms together with older more traditional forms

d. Who understands the continued urgency of free two-way and many-to-many communication over representation

1. A mall, a porn shop and a museum

2. A useful resource, tool, site and gathering point for an artisan

A. Whereby individual creative activities, rather than affiliation to any hyped

art movement becomes most valued.B. The Rise of an ArtisanC. The Internet after net.art

Natalie Bookchin, Alexei Shulgin

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March-April 1999


DEEP ASCII
 Vuk Cosic

http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/

NATALIE BOOKCHIN
http://www.auradigital.net/web/Art-i-cultura-digital/Comentari-d-obres/the-intruder-natalie-bookchin.html

http://metapet.net/


JODI
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/


ALEXEI SHULGIN
http://www.easylife.org/386dx/


MARY FLANAGAN
http://www.maryflanagan.com/domestic


EL JUEGO DE FALSAS IDENTIDADES
Martin Needam
Mouchette

LIFE SHARING
http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/life_sharing/index.html


TELEROBOTICA

Telegarden


lialina
net art


GOLAN LEVIN Y SCOTT GIBBONS et. al
http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/




LITERATURA ELECTRONICA
DONNA LEISHMAN
Red riding hood

Ben Benjamin
SUPERBAD