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I think the net.art movement was really cool, almost satirizing the shortfalls and admiring the natural beauty of the disorder that is the internet.

When you see digital art today, you would never think that it originated in this way. It all looks so refined and purposeful these days, when it reality it started based on the aesthetics of the internet world. Even though it may be disorganized, it's disorganized in a very different way.

It seems like some of the smartest people of that time, in terms of technology, were those who pioneered digital art. I think that’s pretty dang cool that the coding wizards and computer science enthusiasts were the ones who made some of the most primitively beautiful digital art.

I think its cool how institutions and government sort of tried to sensor the art in a way but they prevailed anyways. They even came back stronger and used their art as a medium to criticize certain aspects of society. This type of art was like an underground passage of rebellious artists who wanted to express themselves in any way possible. For example, the russian lady Olia Lialina, was producing awesome products of code and outshining her male counterparts. Back then, it was much harder for women to express themselves in an avenue like that, so I appreciated their ability to do it with flying colors.

This writing was sort of all over the place in terms of sentence structure and subject, which was actually sort of refreshing and mimicked the volatility of the internet. Also, it was funny the authors name was Rachel Greene (like from friends!)