Editing Net.art (section)

==  History of the net.art movement ==

The net.art movement arose in the context of the wider development of [[Internet art]]. As such, net.art is more of a movement and a critical and political landmark in Internet art history, than a specific [[genre]]. Early precursors of the net.art movement include the international [[fluxus]] (Nam June Paik) and avant-pop ([[Mark Amerika]]) movements. The avant-pop movement particularly became widely recognized in Internet circles from 1993, largely via the popular [[Alt-X]] site.

In 1995, the term "net.art" was used by nettime initiator Pit Schultz as a title for an exhibition in Berlin in 1995, in which Vuk Cosic and Alexei Shulgin both showed their work.<ref>Bosma, J. (2011). Nettitudes. Let's Talk Net Art. Rotterdam: NAiPublishers, 2011. Print. p.148.</ref> It was later used with regard to the "net.art per se" meeting of artists and theorists in [[Trieste]] in May 1996, and referred to a group of artists who worked together closely in the first half of the 1990s. These meetings gave birth to the [[website]] net.art per se,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ljudmila.org/naps/cnn/cnn.htm|title=Specific Net.art found possible|date=1989-05-16|publisher=CNN Interactive|access-date=2009-03-12}} (reproduction of event listing, on Ljudmila.org)</ref> a fake [[CNN]] website "commemorating" the event.<ref name="Greene"/> The term "net.art" has been wrongly attributed to artist [[Vuk Cosic]] in 1997, after Alexei Shulgin wrote about the origin of the term in a prank mail to the nettime mailinglist.<ref>Weibel, P & Druckrey, T eds. (2001). net_condition. art and global media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 25. {{ISBN|978-0262731386}}</ref> According to Shulgin's mail net.art stemmed from "conjoined phrases in an email bungled by a technical [[glitch]] (a morass of alphanumeric junk, its only legible term 'net.art')".<ref name="Greene">Rachel Greene, ''Internet Art'', Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2004</ref> The researcher and artist [[Ramzi Turki]] uses the Facebook platform as a space for artistic exchangeFanny Drugeon, « Ramzi Turki, Le Net art et l’esthétique du partage : les murs ont aussi des yeux qui nous regardent », Critique d’art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l’art contemporain, 27 mai 2020 (ISSN 1246-8258, DOI 10.4000/critiquedart.47849.