Rachel Greene’s article on “net.art” discusses the emergence of digital art as the online presence from the world continues to grow. Countries like Russia and parts of Eastern Europe began these forms of artwork in the 90’s. During this time artists expressed their political views and societal pressures in their art, almost as a form of therapy.
Websites like ada.web’ collaborated with many artists inviting them to create web-based art until it was bought by AOL and the Walker Art Center. Jodi.org also took an approach at online communication using creative dialogue forcing the user to interact
with the website more than usual.
The thought behind internet communication as a form of artwork originated from an email sent to Slovanian artist Cosic that was unintentionally interfered during transmission. This interference led to a revolt for artists online.
Female artists like Olia Lialina used the internet to promote feminism through her digital art. She created projects for commissions and received awards from her work that out-did male net.artists.
This net.art was done in many forms more than just personal blogs, time progressed and to this day there are softwares created to make this expression easier.
Net.art made many opportunities for artists to create and transform digital art as we know it. As the amount of people that use the internet has increased vastly since the 90’s, it has become difficult to recognize specific works but that has no impact on the quality of the digital art itself.