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ALT-X (1993-Present)
Eventually dubbed a site "where the digerati meet
the literati," Alt-X, founded by Mark Amerika in late
1992, started off as a Gopher site called Alternative-X,
but soon after the network was launched, the site's community
of net artists located around the world came up with
the diminutive Alt-X, which has stuck ever since. Originally
conceived as an editorially-driven, experimental conceptual
art site where various multidisciplinary artists could
network their audiences together under one virtual roof,
it soon became more than that, becoming one of the first
sites to seriously exhibit Internet art and writing.
The main goals of the site are to investigate the emerging
forms of digital narrative and other genres within Internet
art, to test-drive new media publishing technologies
that challenge old economic models of cultural production,
and to innovate new media marketing strategies targeted
at distributed artist communities and art audiences
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