Introduction of In Your Computer by Domenico Quaranta, pp. 10-14 Link: https://www.academia.edu/4152245/In_Your_Computer 

 

Domenica Quaranta describes his experiences with the beginning of the Net Art movement in the 1990s and the ways that the internet has shifted the way art is made and viewed. It is also a personal reflection on his own relationship to the computer screen. He tells a story about receiving his first computer, and how the internet and net artists shifted his relationship to art forever.

 

So, in this spirit of being “in your computer’, write a ~2 paragraph response to this reading that includes answers to the questions below. 

 

What do you think of the essay?

What did you think of this essay? What do you think of the idea of net art? Do you think art should be experienced in person or on a screen? What can the internet do that a gallery cannot and vice versa?

 

What is your relationship to screens now?

How was the internet altered your life and how has your relationship with it changed over time?

What is one of your earliest internet memories?

Write a description of this memory, describing what you experienced (what were you looking at, learning about, clicking on, seeing, hearing, feeling, experiencing?). Was it a game? Was it an article? Was it a video? Was it social media? Chat? Live journal? Write a story about the experience.