Josephine Berry
As Net Art has begun to shrug off its ghetto character and step into the revealing light of mainstream culture, it finds itself
increasingly subject to accusations of institutional complicity, technophilia, neo-liberal social engineering, even racism.
When Net Art first emerged in the early 90s, it was often identified as a defiant art form which targeted the nepotism, materialism
and aesthetic conformity of the gallery/museum/publishing power complex. It was hailed as an 'art glasnost' which, for the
first time since the cold war, was forging a truly international art movement. Thanks to the efforts of the extravagantly