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beyond interface >>
Steve Dietz was one of the first institutionally-affiliated
voices to give net art its due course. In this landmark
essay which accompanied the historic "beyond interface"
exhibition at the Museums and the Web conference in the
early part of 1998, Dietz outlines the differences between
the various forms of net art that were the first to emerge
in the mid to late Nineties. Focusing his lens on digital
narrative, Euro-influenced net.art, performance, and the
meta-mediumistic implications of a network art scene taking
cultural production and distribution into its own hands
and putting the work on their own servers, Dietz asks
us to rethink the visual in digital culture.
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[from the site:]
"beyond interface's approach to what constitutes net art can perhaps be
best defined as 'exploratory.' In the call for submissions, I wrote
'beyond interface is an online exhibition of juried and curated net art
projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of
viewing/experiencing/participating. As might be expected with a term like
"necessary," we quickly ran into the fact that much of the work we were
interested in could be run off a local set up. You could, in theory, mail
disks of these programs to anyone that wanted them, instead of delivering
the work via the Net. We could have gone on like this for a long time.'
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