Ewa Wójtowicz
Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań
Approaching the Project: From Conceptual Art to Net Art
The ways in which the art project has changed over recent decades can be perceived as a
shift: from the “analogue” networking project, with all its rules...
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Ewa Wójtowicz
Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań
Approaching the Project: From Conceptual Art to Net Art
The ways in which the art project has changed over recent decades can be perceived as a
shift: from the “analogue” networking project, with all its rules and the relationships between
the author and the participants, to the contemporary Internet art project, where the author is
subject to dispersal and the project itself is decentralized and entirely virtual.
Has the term
“project”been remodeled since the meaning it acquired in the 1970s? Are there any issues
derived from the conceptual realm that are still valid in the current conditions? Can
conceptual projects be updated in a digital format without changing their core meaning?
Project vs.
Product
The “net art project” borrows half its name from computer lingo (initially, “net art” was
“net.
art”)and half from conceptual art, which has preferred the term “project”over “artwork,”
inasmuch as the notion of the work of art has been pro
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