The Whitney Museum opens it’s 2002 Biennial show tomorrow. I’d like to see it, but I’m not sure if I’ll be in New York again before it’s down. Luckily the net art work is available from their website—even now, before the show launches. Also, I hear that the work is more integrated into the show than it was in 2000, where it was all shoved onto one computer. It looks like net art (notice that I didn’t say digital art) is finally getting recognition. I make that distinction between net and digital art because net art is specific and unique in it’s exploration of multi-user environments, networked aesthetics, and user contributed systems.
Below are some screenshots of what Mark Napier’s Riot did with the Moped Army website. Riot is an alternative web browser that re-contextualizes the content of the site you’re viewing by mixing it with previously viewed pages and its own rendering madness.
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