Source: New Media Art
pg. 7: “Deciding what counts as media technology is a difficult task. The Internet, which is central to many New Media art projects, is itself composed of a heterogeneous and constantly changing assortment of computer hardware and software—servers, routers, personal computers, database appliations, scripts and files—all governed by arcane protocols, such as HTTP, TCp/IP and DNS….
Source: Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_art : ” ‘Internet art projects are art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating. Internet art can also happen outside the purely technical 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 in the broadest sense. ’—definition by Steve Dietz, former curator in new media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis”
Source: Internet Art
pg. 136: “In the same way that an installation creates a particular context for reflection, the internet’s limits constructs relationships between users and the medium.”
Source: Internet Art
pg. 80-81: “On the positive side, web-based expositions were extremely cheap to produce, as long as one had access to programming resources and server space.”
Source: Internet Art
pg. 79-80: “Offline galleries remained generally uninterested in internet art in the 1990s for a number of reasons.”
Source: Internet Art