# MX006 - Internet Art Group 3 --- ## Internet Art *"Net art plays with the protocols of the Internet, with its technical peculiarities. It deals creatively with software and with the rules software follows in order to work. It only has any meaning at all within its medium, the Internet.”*- Tilman Bumgärtel --- ## Tactical qualities “They are the “tactical” qualities of Internet art’s deep-seated desire to become specific to its own medium, for they are the moments when the medium itself shines through and becomes important.” - Galloway, 213 --- ## WILL-N-TESTAMENT - OLIA LIALINA  --- ## WILL-N-TESTAMENT - OLIA LIALINA  --- ## Tactical qualities in the art work Loading time as a tactical quality “[...] due to prominent technical constraints such as bandwidth and computer speed, many artists were forced to turn toward conceptual uses of the Internet that were not hindered by these technical constraints, or, in fact, made these constraints the subject of the work.” - Galloway, 219 --- ## Fuller Four typologies: - Incoherence - Archeology - Retro-tooling - Deconstruction --- ### Links in the text ### Artwork lives on the internet, not on a single page --- ## The approach of Critical Making in the art work --- ## Debate If you don't have a common understanding of these tactical qualities, can you be aware of them in an internet artwork? --- ## Debate In these texts the receivers of the artwork are referred to as *users* in contrast to traditional art, where they are commonly known as audience or spectator. Why do you think there is a distinguishment between the two groups?