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Network Installations, Creative Exhibitionism and Virtual
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IN 1997, Alt-X, which had already acheived an international
reputation as one of the most prolific and iconoclastic
web sites focusing on hypertext, avant-pop fiction, and
critical theory, launched what many believe to be the
first large-scale net art exhibition with keynote essays
by Roy Ascott, Rhizome's Alex Galloway and this essay
from Alt-X Director Mark Amerika.
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[from the opening:]
"So much of our commercial and potentially-subversive art today is being
developed with software application programs that encourage the liberal
usage of Modernistic practices (particularly sampling, collage,
technological gimmickry and other "engineered" behaviors), we tend to
forget that what we are doing is not necessarily all that new and that if
we're looking for deep structural changes in the art work of today as
opposed to even ten or twenty years ago, then we're more likely to find
these changes in the mediums through which contemporary art gets
distributed and how the emerging network culture radically transforms the
way in which we participate in the dual worlds of art-making and
art-appreciating." |
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