I found that this article was extremely informative and interesting regarding the foundations and spread of digital art. Specifically, I think it’s important to note that this rising forum was open to anyone with a computer and allowed artists and anyone who wanted to participate on equal footing. This was a huge part of digital art’s success - its abundance of opportunity and accessibility. However, there is still a class divide between those who have access to the internet and those who don’t. Although the digital art forum was doing many things for equality between different genders, cultures, and sexual orientations, we can still see the impacts of the class divide. The Cyberfeminist Manifesto really resonated with me - reminds me of Riot Grrrl! Those who cared about cyberfeminism were encouraged to take the discussion elsewhere, which defeats the purpose of a platform like this. It’s understandable that the general community was not initially receptive to this, being that a lot of the art takes on a crude and aggressive approach. It’s the kind of art that is not appreciated in its own time, but reflectively acknowledged as being revolutionary. I loved the idea presented through formalism. The project in which computer backgrounds were used as a way of analyzing their attached persons in an informal and funny way is really intriguing to me. Even though this wasn’t done as serious research, there is definitely something there when it comes to what a person’s desktop says about them. I’ve attached my own below. What do you think it says about me?
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