MEDIAART 3D03: net.art
The wikipedia article is a great starting point for learning about net.art.
Here are three artists whose work I like to share with people:
Alexander R. Galloway has a 2016 article about Jodi and net.art - here's a quote I like from that article: "The true subject of the work is infrastructure—the cables and lines, the standards and protocols, all the industrial transfer technologies that reside in the space beyond the screen."
I could swear I visited wwwwwwwww.jodi.org sometime in the past few years and noticed the use of the obsolete html blink tag. Visiting it in Fall 2026, I notice that some simple JavaScript code is reimplementing the obsolete functionality of the blink tag, which is an interesting moment/feature to think about.
A really good exercise - both for learning about what the web browser (especially the web browser of the late 1990s) can do and for thinking about the specific pieces and their interpretation/significance - is to visit net.art pages and then use the web browser's "View Page Source" functionality (usually accessed by right clicking somewhere on a given page). In one of our class meetings, we'll do that a bit with net.art pages...