Question 2: Nature of the 'Interloper'?

There is also a slight segue that I would add into the discussion of net art as a community, in that around the time of the Bust, the introduction of Internet art to the Whitney Biennial and commissions by museums like the Guggenheim and SFMoMA seemed to significantly affect the social structure of the net art community, as some artists saw the potential for income, and went in that direction, many becoming much less active. Perhaps there is also the natural turnover in any social structure from individuals moving on in their lives, but I offer these asides as food for discussion.

But I digress.

Which brings me to the second point of my opening remarks, the idea of what constitutes an