NetArt Repository

This repository contains digital art from the 90s and early net art pioneers. Browse through the list of artists below to explore their works.

Artists

JODI - wwwwwwwww.jodi.org 1995
A screen of garbled green text looks like a broken website, until the viewer checks the HTML code through the browser's "View Source" function and realizes that the page is generated from a text drawing of a nuclear missile. The code also includes the <blink> tag, which in legacy browsers makes the text flash on and off, adding to the chaotic effect.
Cornelia Sollfrank - Female Extension 1997
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Jennifer & Kevin McCoy - Airworld 1999
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UBERMORGEN - Vote Auction 2000
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Cory Arcangel - DATA Diaries 2003
For Data Diaries (2003, commissioned by turbulence.org), Cory Arcangel used the contents of his computer’s temporary storage (RAM) as raw material for a series of abstract, glitchy videos. Each day over the course of a month, he would employ a hack to open this normally unseen data in QuickTime, which translated it into frenetic patterns of blocks and digital static. The resulting videos are presented on a website with a handmade, “dirt style” aesthetic, featuring visual and navigation elements that were created with a clone of the 1980s graphics program MacPaint. A scribbled calendar of the month of January 2003 allows users to access the video generated on any given day.