net.art

i just put together & presented a presentation on net.art, particularly the early stuff, for craig baldwin's history of reproducibility class here at sfai. as a practicing net.artist it was a cool opportunity for me to explore some of the roots of the practices of the medium in greater detail. especially interesting (to me anyway) is the stuff that came out of the mid-late 90s, before php and MySQL were widely available and before the explosion of bandwidth; artists had to be much more inventive & efficient with what they had to work with - namely the raw features of HTML: image maps, form elements, text as image. the medium has turned out to be far more ephemeral than anyone had thought. much of the work from this period is no longer available (&arguably, the most dominant aesthetic of net.art today is '404: not found').

anyway, here it is in wiki format. feel free to edit, add to, subtract from, or destroy it.