Editing Net.art (section)

== Online social networks ==
net.artists have built [[digital art]] communities through an active practice of web hosting and web art curating. net.artists have defined themselves through an international and networked mode of communication, an interplay of exchanges, collaborative and cooperative work {{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}. They have a large presence on several [[mailing lists]] such as [[Rhizome (organization)|Rhizome]], File festival, [[Electronic Language International Festival]], [[Nettime]], Syndicate and Eyebeam. The identity of the net.artists is defined by both their digital works and their critical involvement in the digital art community,  as the polemical discussion led by Olia Lialina that occurred on [[Nettime]] in early 2006 on the "New Media" Wikipedia entry shows<ref>Lialina, O [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0511/threads.html#00025 A New Definition], Nettime Archive List</ref>

net.artists like [[Jodi (art collective)|Jodi]] developed a particular form of e-mail art, or [[E-mail spam|spam]] mail art, through text reprocessing and [[ASCII art]]. The term "spam art" was coined<ref>Madre, F [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0011/msg00049.html Interview by Josephine Bosma], Nettime list archive</ref> by net critique and net art practitioner<ref>Madre, F [http://pleine-peau.com pleine-peau.com], site created in 1994</ref> Frederic Madre to describe all such forms of disruptive interventions in mailing-lists, where seemingly nonsensical texts were generated by simple scripts, online forms or typed by hand.

A connection can be made to the e-mail interventions of "Codeworks" artists such as [[Mez Breeze|Mez]] or [[mi ga]] or robots like [http://www.triple-double-u.com/mailia Mailia] which analyze emails and reply to them. "Codeworks" is a term coined by poet Alan Sondheim to define the textual experiments of artists playing with faux-code and non-executable script or mark-up languages.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}