Reading Blog #3

The article provided for Reading Blog #3 discussed the history of internet art and how it emerged in the 1990s. It starts by talking about what "Net.Art" is. They refer to "Net.Art" as any basic internet thing such as emails, images, and texts that somehow combine. Anything that could provide what is referred to as an optical aesthetic was Net.Art. Some of the key artists included in the article that helped with the emergence of web art were Mark Tribe, who focused on preserving digital art. Heath Bunting, who was known for using digital art in a political way. Alexei Shulgin, who created a piece combining technology, art, and music. I found it very interesting going into the emergence of digital art. Reading that it came from a corrupted file is such an interesting idea to me, and overall I think that using the internet to preserve art is such a great idea. It's very interesting that digital art didn't emerge not too long ago but has become such a popular thing. Using digital art as a new way of art is a way of practicing art that is becoming more and more popular these days. Since our world is rapidly changing and becoming more and more technology-dependent. For example, nobody uses paper in class now for notes, now it's all just digital. It also is starting to apply to digital art, and I feel that soon we will fully be using digital art as technology advances.