GRAMMATRON (1993-1997)
Perhaps
the most widely accessed work of net art in the history
of the medium, GRAMMATRON, which was one of the first
works of net art selected for the prestigious Whitney
Biennial, is a story about net culture, Cabala mysticism,
digicash paracurrencies and the evolution of virtual
sex in a society afraid to go out and get in touch
with its own nature. This classic work of net.art
depicts a near-future world where stories are no longer
conceived for book production but are instead created
for a more immersive, network-narrative environment
that, taking place on the net, calls into question
how a narrative is composed, published, exhibited
and distributed in the age of digital dissemination.
According to Amerika, "one can still trace a
kind of pseudo-autobiographical prophet-taking in
GTRON wherein the reconfigured author becomes a nomadically-inclined
Internet artist who blurs the simple-minded disciplinary
distinctions we find all throughout contemporary culture."
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