net.art
Work made for and about the network: the browser as gallery, the link as gesture, the website as a place to mark time and presence.
net.art treats the network itself as the medium — not a channel for distributing images, but the material the work is made of. The browser is the gallery, the hyperlink is a gesture, the server is a performer, and the viewer arrives through a URL rather than a door. My work in this lineage runs from early networked pieces through tactical media and virtual-world performance, and continues into automated, conceptual web works.
The anchor work here is After On Kawara.com, a networked homage that turns the website into a machine for marking days, presence and existence. Around it sit the more tactical and performative strands: Grasping at Bits as nonlinear hypertext on control and resistance; the web interventions of RTMark and The Yes Men; the networked performance of Second Front; and the early networked media of Haymarket RIOT. Other works like Assoniations and my contribution to MTAA;s 100 day Net Art project provide conversations with the dialogue in this period.
Across all of them the network is treated as a public, contested and deeply mediated space — one that can be inhabited, performed in and argued with.