Throughout my readings upon artforum.com, I found many of the interpretations and cited works in regards to the flourishing net.art movement as it originally existed to be remarkably fascinating in their implementation, especially given just how far back in time most of these creations went. It is obvious to any onlooker that digital art is not a new, modern concept in any sense, but many contributing factors towards the original online movement existed in a time long before rampant corporatization of the internet and by extension websites as a space, and with less uniformity came a unique sense of creativity by proxy. Even now, you are reading this very blog post on a website designed and maintained by a company for the sake of profit, but back during the original beginnings of the net.art movement and similar associated ones (like name.space, which was never intended to be an art-related matter, but nonetheless proved its adjacency) it can be said that the lack of cookie-cutter uniformity meant a blossoming volume of unique creativity due to spaces online needing far more unique ground-up creativity to produce in the first place.
Whilst the corporatization of the internet is not a new topic of consideration in any respects, the article nonetheless provokes further thinking on the matter, especially given the general complacency in which digital artists live today, willingly living beneath the umbrella of for-profit companies and corporations that wish for nothing other than to benefit the most off of the internet in spite of the pitfalls that plague its users as a result.
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