Web-specific artists give it away for free.
_On Network Art_ is an critical discourse in attempt to solidify certain metaphyiscal and practical elements of web-specific art. It was written from mid-2001 to mid-2002, and finally arrived at it's current version some time last week.
Hopefully, it might spawn/continue some dialogue on topics surrounding the development of art in the www. As such, to all rhizome faithful interested in such things, please visit:
http://www.art.paultulipana.net/essay/onnetwork/on_network_art.html
"Everything in the digital computer is always and never a dialectic. Within the system there exists only binarism, allowing no room for convergence. Meanwhile, upon aggregation of these specific datum, (and in many other places, we will realize) indeterminacy is created by the complex and rhizomatic relationships of information. To wit, this always and never in itself is dialectical."
Let the flames begin,
Paul
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http://art.paultulipana.net/essay/onnetwork/on_network_art.pdf
excellent essay on network art by someone you may be familiar with
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I had a quick look at it. What did you find "excellent" about it?
When he says things like "The computer is oppositional. It is binary. At the
ground level, there are ones and then there are zeros. Things aggregate from
there." I wonder why, apart perhaps from rhetorical convenience, the binary
is characterized as "oppositional". It might as well be "complimentary". Or
when he says, for instance "The computer is metaphorized, not metaphorical,"
one could as well turn it around, ie, the computer is metaphorical, not
metaphorized. For instance, there are no 1's or 0's in the computer. There
are charged transistors and uncharged transistors (RAM memory). The physical
states of the hardware are interpreted metaphorically, ie, a charged
transistor 'is' a 1.
At every turn i found myself wondering what his point was, wishing he would
get to the point rather than being forever preliminary and, as above,
uninformed and arbitrary.
So I didn't read the whole thing. What did you find excellent about it?
ja
http://art.paultulipana.net/essay/onnetwork/on_network_art.pdf
excellent essay on network art by someone you may be familiar with