Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce

by Julian Stallabrass

The development of Internet art has been short and rapid and dates from the introduction of web browsers in the mid-1990s. Artists realized the potential of a medium and system of delivery that side-stepped the mainstream art institutions and allowed them to make direct contact with an audience. Their interventions have ranged from works that deconstruct the browser itself, to works that shade into political activism. Internet art has been international,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854373455
• ISBN13: 9781854373458
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Internet as a medium for artistic expression

I found this book to focus less about the art on the internet and more of a critique of it. Though it cites examples, it rather addresses issues about the internets role in culture, its role in the public domain vs. privitization, philosophies of internet and interactivity. The book is quite interesting and brings up issues that should be activly looked at in todays commercial world. I recommend this to all artists who are active in working with multimedia or even those in advertising and marketing who would like to brush up on some marketing schemes and how the internet applys to todays commercial world.