Last Reading Blog Post!

"Net Art". I was not expecting this reading to go where it did. It was a bit confusing and hard to follow but towards the end everything cleared up a little bit. To start, I have never heard of this term but it makes so much sense during the time it emerged. I was immediately drawn to the images displayed in the reading. Obviously they were screen grabs from the 90s-2000s and I am OBSESSED with the aesthetic. I loved how people would just mess with their desktop backgrounds to make "art". Obviously, this introduction to a virtual world allowed many different ways of communicating. The one that got me the most was the private or public chat rooms. I can't even imagine what it was like when that surfaced to the world. No wonder people were already getting frisky communicating in this way. I also had no idea about this "cyber feminism" movement and that there was some segregation amongst websites and hackers. Although this is ridiculous, I understand. This was a whole new world where people could communicate without being face to face but still have unlimited time to type something or share images. The coolest part about this reading was the introduction of hacker art. I barely remember my mom getting hacked by someone when I was 4 or 5 and there was a pink dinosaur running around on her computer screen and everything was pink. At the time, I didn't think anything of it but now, I think it's actually hilarious. In a way, this absolutely influenced A LOT of digital art we have seen and see today. It is really cool to read about some of the small and big things that made digital art what it is today!