Key Quotes

1.‘Ultimately, any experience of an artwork is interactive, relying on a complex interplay between contexts and productions of meaning at the recipient’s end. Yet, this interaction remains a mental event in the viewer’s mind when it comes to experiencing traditional art forms:…’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.67
2.‘Among the forms that a digital artwork can take are installation; film, video and animation; Internet art and software art; and virtual reality and musical environments’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.70
3.‘The importance of these movements for digital art resides in their emphasis on formal instructions and in their focus on concepr, event, and audience participation, as opposed to unified material objects.’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),P.11
4.‘meta-browser that treasts the Net as one large database of files, retrieving information independent from the original design of the data sourse and displaying it as free-floating in space’, Paul, Christiane, Renderings of Digital Art. ' Leonardo, Vol. 35, No. 5, Tenth Anniversary New York Digital Salon (2002), p.473
5.‘…It expanded the functionality of existing browsers in an aesthetic and creative way that questioned the paradiagms of the conwentional information display and Internet ‘architecture’.’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.118-119
6.‘However, the project blends different websites- for example those of CNN, the BBC, and Microsoft- and ,by collapsing territorial conventions like domains, sites, and pages, illustrates how the Net resists traditional notions of territory, ownership, and quthority.’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.120
7.‘One of the most signigicant aspects of the Internet is that it has created a global platform for exchange and communities of interests.’ Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.120
8.‘…it requires the artist to write a purely verbal description of their work. Intraditional art forms, the ‘signature’ and ‘voice’ of an artist manifests itself in aesthetics of visuals and execution. In software art, the visual results of the artwork are derived from the language of code. The aesthetics and signature of artists who write their own source code manifest themselves both in the code itself and its visual results…Code has also been referred to as the medium…’Paul, Christiane, Digital Art (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003),p.124