Internet Art

Stallibrass, J (2003) Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce

Internet art uses the intent to actually get people involved in the art itself.
Below is a quote taken from Stallabrass.

Internet art or net art can be created in many ways: for example, through websites; e-mail projects; Internet-based software projects (e.g games); Internet-linked networked installations; interactive and/or streaming video, audio, networked performances (using multi-user domains, virtual worlds, chat-rooms, and other networked environments).

“There are many examples of collaborative works of art in which users add to a project within a frame set up by the initiator. Among the best known is the Douglas Davis the world’s first collaborative sentence 1991. One of the first internet artworks to which tens of thousands of people have added”.

Below is a quote taken from a Douglas Davis interview by Tilman Baumgaertel:

“I thought of the keyboard, the means of interaction allowed by the Web but not by video or flat art. The big difference between broadcast TV and the Web is the keyboard: that people can say anything with it, they have full expressive capacity. This means a more intense and personal link could occur between me and the audience - and why not get the whole world together to write a sentence?”

This whole concept allows freedom of expression (within some constraints). This concept is similar to José van Dijck’s Home-casting: the end of broadcasting? Whereby a video clip can be obtained and edited time and time again. Creating a completely new snippet.