- >>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997
- >>From: easylife@hawk.glas.apc.org
- >>Net.Art - the origin
- >>I feel it's time now to give a
- >>light on the origin of the
- >>term - "net.art". Actually, it's a
- >>readymade.
- >>In December 1995 Vuk Cosic
- >>got a message, sent via
- >>anonymous mailer.
- >>Because of incompatibility of
- >>software, the opened text
- >>appeared to be practically
- >>unreadable ascii abracadabra.
- >>The only fragment of it that
- >>made any sense looked
- >>something like:
- >>[...] J8~g#|\;Net.Art{-^s1[...]
- >>Vuk was very much amased (sic)
- >>and exited (sic): the net itself gave
- >>him a name for activity he was
- >>involved in!
Weibel, P & Druckrey, T eds. (2001). net_condition. art and global media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 25
