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What Counts As Net Art? >>
The Webby Awards are marketed as the web equivalent of
the Oscars but of course they are nothing of the sort.
Still, every year one category gets the attention of the
net population more than others and that's the Art category.
With name artists like Laurie Anderson and David Bowie
helping make the decisions, how can it not? When it came
time to picking the winner of the web art award for 2001,
the distinguished panel of net art judges carried on an
interesting email dialogue among themselves that Rhizome
Director Mark Tribe was kind enough to share excerpts
of. And the winner is...? Net art -- of course.
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[from the site:]
"I'm deeply concerned about the message we're sending with giving HI the
top prize. We are all very immersed into this art form, so for many of us
a work like HI (a net film one doesn't see too
often) may be refreshing. For the public at large and the artists,
however, this may look very different. In many of the recent reviews of
web-based art written by traditional art critics in traditional media,
I've read the following again and again: what they considered to be the
most successful pieces were the ones that 'finally' looking more like
traditional art ('it looks more like painting') and were 'not about the
technology' (which unfortunately most of the time meant not using the
medium)."
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