LEA - Pour une typologie de la création sur Internet

Pour une typologie de la création sur Internet
(A typology of Creation on the Internet)
by Annick Bureaud

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Abstract
This article is in French and has been published originally by OLATS (Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and the Techno-Sciences), the French speaking web site of Leonardo (http://www.olats.org). It belongs to a long term and broader project that OLATS has undertaken that is to provide the French speaking community at large with a documentation in all the areas of art and technology : history (Pionners & Pathbreakers project), ressource (CD-ROM and web sites reviews, bibliographies, etc.) and in-depth analysis (Livres & Etudes).

"Pour une typologie de la création sur Internet" is one of the first attempt to consider web (or net) art under its different forms and to define a typology beyond the hype. Based on the study of the available artworks at the time, the author has identified 4 different groups in which net art can be categorized, for each of which it gives examples : Hypermedia works ; The message is the medium ; Communication, Collaborative and Relationnal works ; Cyberception. For each of these forms an analysis is conducted to see :

a) how and if they can be related to other art forms that exist outside the Internet/Web and other trends and concepts throughout the 20th Century art history ;
b) how they propose new concepts, ideas, create their own artistic language and actually define new aesthetic perceptions.

The survey has been done in 97/98. It is a first step that needs to be persued.