A curator here in New York is trying to reconstitute the early pre-
web artist bbs's such as ArtNetWeb, thing bbs and rhizome. He wants
to also use the original machines and have the archives available on
the web for research. He's also asking for very early internet works
that depend on netscape 1.0. Seems to me, there is now an effort to
understand the "New Aesthetics" and begin to sort out it's starting
points. I would say that right at the beginning when everyone in the
90's started picking up computers and using the web there were
several definable strains of aesthetics. here's a partial list, 3D
objects and worlds, chat and social software, surveillance and
privacy, web sites (as publications or interactive works),
sound art, video on the web and digital video. Digital photography is
in there but it seems to be wrapped up in the other forms. Then there
is interactive art, human and machine interface, open source and
hacking community. Let's not forget the computer vision crowd,
virtual world and online theater. This keeps on being added to and
refined. For example the first online 3D code was VRML that sort of
petered out and is now wrapped into Augmented Reality. Anyway all
these aesthetic currents are constantly evolving and are very
exciting as a new language. It is just then beginning of an ontology
so we don't know where it might lead. We do know that the "modernist/
post-modernist" discourse is pretty much played out and really boring.
On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Lichty, Patrick wrote:
Also, I want to ask where people see NA going, if anywhere. Will
that be dependednt on the development of technologies, or human
reflections upon them?
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