After reading the article on the history of internet art, it first made me a little surprised that internet art was first created by accident. However, I guess, it wasn’t a huge surprise because I could have guessed that it would have been an outcome of technological issues flickering creative minds. While reading the article, one rhetorical question came to mind. What would digital art look like now if there had not been a software glitch in 1995? Would digital art have been as expansive and interactive as it is today? I just thought it was interesting to see examples of what internet art looked like in the beginning and what they were used for. As we live in a very technologically advanced world, “internet” art definitely stretches out and embraces a larger category of art, but thinking that this could all be different if the net.art never formed or never became popular intrigued my thought. I feel like, on one hand, that net.art would have been popular anyways because there are topics in the world, especially back then without an open, easy-to-access communicative pool, that artists would have wanted to discuss and express that can be seen easily by a bigger audience. Back then or now, there were continuous disputes and debates on certain digital arts, and this can be a reason for why more people want to open websites that visually communicate the things they believe. I don’t exactly know what the computer science majors argue or are angry about, but whatever that is, I personally think positively about the glitch that created this evolution of digital, website art. While starting our last project of website adventure, I have opened my eyes on a fun, new property of art.
Hard to imagine art on these computers.
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