Lessons in NetArt

Thomas Dreher

auf deutsch

The list of lessons contains titles of net projects in brackets which are important for artists or artists´ groups and allow the use of all functions (instead of documents of former functions). Then follow indices which designate combinations of media and functions.
key to the indices

• Net Polls and Political Dialogues: Andreja Kuluncic
  (13th lesson, July 2003. Distributive Justice: DS / KS)
• Link, Filter und Informationsfreiheit: ODEM
  (12th lesson, November 2002, in German. ODEM: AK)
• Artivismo: www.0100101110101101.org
  (11th lesson, April 2002, in German. life_sharing: FN)
• unendlich, fast...: Holger Friese
  (10th lesson, November 2001, in German. unendlich, fast...: ED)
• Interview Yourself! Amy Alexander
  (9th lesson, September 2001 / April 2002, in German. Interview Yourself: DS)
• Politics of Classification: Matthew Fuller und Graham Harwood
  (8th lesson, January / November 2001, in German. Web Stalker: BA)
• Informationschoreographie: Maciej Wisniewski
  (7th lesson, November 2000, in German. Netomat: BA)
• Connective Force Attack: Knowbotic Research, Gideon May und Thomas Rehaag
  (6th lesson, October 2000, in German. Connective Force Attack: AK / AS)
• Telepräsenz: Eduardo Kac und Ken Goldberg
  (5th lesson, April / October 2000, in German. Telegarden: TR)
• Internationale Stadt Berlin und sero.org: Joachim Blank & Karl-Heinz Jeron
  (4th lesson, February 2000, in German. Dump Your Trash: ES / KS; re-m@il: ES)
• Andyland / Artcontext: Andrew C. Deck
  (3rd lesson, January 2000, in German. Graphic Jam: KB)
• Potatoland: Mark Napier
  (2nd lesson, December 1999, in German. Shredder: PA)
• Synergy Collaborative Projects on SITO: Ed Stastny
  (1st lesson, November 1999, in German. HyGrid: KB)

"Lessons in NetArt" has introduced users since 1999 to the possibilities of artistic creativity on the Internet. "Lessons in NetArt" appears in irregular intervals, and has been available in English translation since August 2003.

The lessons usually deal with websites of artists and artists´ groups. One or more net projects have been in function and reacted to operations of users (or allowed interactions between users and/or participants in a part of the project) when the lesson was published.

Additional projects are discussed as a background to actual net projects without regard if they are acccessible only in a documentation version with downloads of contributions of participants (closed for further participations) or if only a description of the concept is available. CD-ROMS and reactive installations are taken into consideration if they are relevant to our discussion of the strategies of an artist or an artists´ group and her/his/their way to use multi- and intermedia.