Net.Art part 1

I’ve decided to take a peek into this subject because as far as my understanding goes Net.Art is art produced using the Internet as a medium. Since I’ve been drawing since I was small this is as much curiosity as a child would find at the end of a rabbit hole.

Without looking into it at first what does Net.Art mean to me?

The only thing I can think of is ASCII art which pretty much stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 95 Printable text standard that more or less started in the 1940s with typewriters. So using text as a medium to create mock images we can recognize since printing images in the 1940s pretty much didn’t exist then. Printing images is pretty much a viable way of expression in an artistic value.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948

Keyboard art back in the 1940s, imagine the patience needed to attempt this on a typewriter without error.

Moving onto digital ASCII art is still lurking around and without a doubt every person using the Internet will encounter it. At least it would be easier to perform using a text editor instead of a type writer. Either way I still find it time consuming.

Image taken from http://www.chris.com/ASCII/ a site dedicated to collecting ASCII style art revealed onto the Internet in 1994 according to his words.

I am probably stereotypical of an artist that I expect to see an image if it’s anything image related.