From the Wall Street Journal: The Internet As Art.
Just as video and computer technology attracted pioneering artists in the 1960s and 1970s, the Internet today is inspiring artists to tinker with the possibilities and boundaries of the World Wide Web. What started as a playful and often tongue-in-cheek experimental venture by a few code-savvy artists in the early 1990s has grown into a global art movement that is attracting attention from museums and private collectors. Karlsruhe-based media museum Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, or ZKM, has been running a series of net.art exhibitions. Berlin’s Digital Art Museum recently showed the video performance “Hammering the Void,” by Gazira Babeli, the pseudonym for an artist who exists only in Second Life, an online virtual reality game.
