Reviews
The web is host to countless cultural artifacts -- artifacts that The Art Happens Here insists are dated by time and specific to place, resisting easy notions of the internet as somehow transcendent., Dating from 1985 to the present, the works in The Art Happens Here make use of a wide range of mediums--including websites, software, sculpture, graphics, books, and merchandise--and represent a historical perspective on the breadth of net art practice., By embracing the nebulousness and vitality of network culture as a whole, The Art Happens Here offers a diverse showcase of critical projects, while highlighting inherent paradoxes within such showcases of net art at large., [The works in this book] deal with ephemerality, loss and change -- but also with the joy and weirdness of the web., When it comes to canonization, "Net Art Anthology" is a consciously open canon, tracing but one of many possible paths through the history of net art.
