net art. screenshot taken on 25/09/2016 (now available through luissarmento.com/netart2010 
net art is an artistic object of conceptual formalization. Its materialization as an object consists in the total set of technological components used to access the web page. In spite of its absolutely material nature, the hardware set needed for this access (from individual web access devices to the hardware infrastructure that makes it possible) can only be imagined. At the limit, an exhibition of this project in an art gallery context would have to consist in a space containing each and every one of the constituting devices including computers, tablets and mobile phones, routers, cables, wireless distributors, servers, communication towers, intercontinental undersea fiber optic cables and even satellites. With each new access, this set – the sum total of whatever made it possible for a large number of people to see a blank page in their browsers – has grown far beyond what would be possible to contain within the walls of an exhibition room.
map of the geographical distribution of the devices used to access net art. (September 2016)
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