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The Conquest of Ubiquity
The Conquest of Ubiquity
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Mark Amerika GRAMMATRON - Ben Benjamin superbad.com - Blank & Jeron Dump
Your Trash - Heath Bunting own, be owned or remain invisible - Bureau of
Inverse Technology [BIT] Suicide Box - Arcangel Constantini
w.o.a.i.t.a.o.M.( vs).D.rep\_1234567890 - Vuk Cosic ASCII History of Moving
Images - Critical Art Ensemble TACTICAL MEDIA - Minerva Cuevas MVC Web Site
- Luka Frelih 7-11 - Dora Garcia Heartbeat - Heide, 1sand0s, Pocock, Stehle
Unmovie.net - JODI JODI.ORG - knowbotic research IO\_il lavoro immateriale -
Olia Lialina Last Will and Testament - Brian Mackern no-content.net -
Michael Mandiberg The Exchange Program - Lev Manovich Freud-Lissitzky
Navigator - Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Airworld - Antoni Muntadas The File
Room - Josh On They rule - pavu.com pavu.com - Radical Software Group
Carnivore - Alexei Shulgin Form Art - Alexei Shulgin & others Desktop Is -
John F. Simon, Jr. Unfolding Object - Igor Stromajer SY.SMN -
SeeYou.SeeMeNot. - Beth Stryker + Sawad Brooks dissemiNET - Surveillance
Camera Players '1984
The Conquest Of Ubiquity
/**/The Conquest Of Ubiquity (intro)
Jose Luis Brea
Although the apparent aim of "the conquest of ubiquity" is to sketch a
brief "history of net.art", we do not set out to do this from the immanent
perspective of a more or less recent and consolidated artistic form or
genre, but rather from the perspective of what is represented and implied
by its emergence in the context of the transformation of symbolic practices
taking place in contemporary societies. Thus the emphasis and the "key
points" of this account will not be focussed either on narrative
development, or on formal "finds", or even on those critical articulations
that have been most influential to date on the effective development of the
net.art "form" as such. But rather on those realizations which best reveal
the generic process of transformation of the "economy of artistic
practices" that is taking place at the present moment, and which (in our
view) "act as symptoms", coming to light in net.art.
Our brief 'history of net.art", then, is guided by the conviction that
what will prove to have been most important in its early development
(during these first ten years of existence), will be the extent to which
this new type of communication practice will have anticipated
Jose Luis Brea
Although the apparent aim of "the conquest of ubiquity" is to sketch a
brief "history of net.art", we do not set out to do this from the immanent
perspective of a more or less recent and consolidated artistic form or
genre, but rather from the perspective of what is represented and implied
by its emergence in the context of the transformation of symbolic practices
taking place in contemporary societies. Thus the emphasis and the "key
points" of this account will not be focussed either on narrative
development, or on formal "finds", or even on those critical articulations
that have been most influential to date on the effective development of the
net.art "form" as such. But rather on those realizations which best reveal
the generic process of transformation of the "economy of artistic
practices" that is taking place at the present moment, and which (in our
view) "act as symptoms", coming to light in net.art.
Our brief 'history of net.art", then, is guided by the conviction that
what will prove to have been most important in its early development
(during these first ten years of existence), will be the extent to which
this new type of communication practice will have anticipated