10 Facts About Internet art

Internet art is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet.

Internet art is often — but not always — interactive, participatory, and multimedia-based.

Internet art can be used to spread a message, either political or social, using human interactions.

Rather, this genre relies intrinsically on the Internet art to exist as a whole, taking advantage of such aspects as an interactive interface and connectivity to multiple social and economic cultures and micro-cultures, not only web-based works.

Internet art cites the above stipulations, as well as defining it as distinct from commercial web design, and touching on issues of permanence, archivability, and collecting in a fluid medium.

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Internet art is rooted in disparate artistic traditions and movements, ranging from Dada to Situationism, conceptual art, Fluxus, video art, kinetic art, performance art, telematic art and happenings.

Internet art has, according to Juliff and Cox, suffered under the privileging of the user interface inherent within computer art.

Artistic communities on the Internet underwent a similar transition in the mid-2000s, shifting from Surf Clubs, "15 to 30 person groups whose members contributed to an ongoing visual-conceptual conversation through the use of digital media" and whose membership was restricted to a select group of individuals, to image-based social networking platforms, like Flickr, which permit access to any individual with an e-mail address.

Post-Internet art is a loose descriptor for works that are derived from the Internet art or its effects on aesthetics, culture and society.

Art historian Rachel Greene identified six forms of internet art that existed from 1993 to 1996: email, audio, video, graphics, animation and websites.