Internet art (often referred to as net art Internet art is art which uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform. Artists working this way are sometimes referred to as net artists. Internet art projects are:) is art Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics which uses the Internet The Internet is a standardized, global system of interconnected computer networks that connects millions of people. The system uses the Internet Protocol Suite standard rules for data representation, signaling, authentication, and error detection. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and as its primary medium or platform. Artists working in this manner are sometimes referred to as net artists.
Internet art can also sometimes happen outside the purely technical online structure of the Internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the Internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, in the broadest sense.
The term Internet art typically does not refer to art that has been simply digitized and uploaded to be viewable over the Internet through a web browser, such as images of paintings uploaded for viewing in an online gallery.[1] Rather, this genre relies intrinsically on the Internet to exist, taking advantage of such aspects as an interactive interface and connectivity to multiple social and economic cultures and micro-cultures. It refers to the Internet as a whole, and not only to web-based works.
Theoriest and curator Jon Ippolito defined "10 Myths" about Internet art in 2002.[1] He cites the above stipulations, as well as defining it as distinct from commercial web design, and touching on issues of permanence, archivability and collecting in such a fluid medium.
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