Net.art 2.0 Neue Materialien Zur Netzkunst/New Materials Towards Net Art

Summary: This follow-up to the first very successful net-art book documents developments in net art from 1999 to the present. A large portion of the thematically-designed book consists of interviews with artists such as Julia Scher, Peter Halley, Blank & Jeron, Jodi, etoy and Lisa Jevbratt, who have recently created major projects using the internet. The conversations are supplemented by a documentary appendix and an essay by... Tilman Baumgartel describing the specifics of net art and its place in current artistic discourse. Interspersed with the text components are images of more than 130 net-based works. [read more]