Chapter 3 internet art

In chapter three of Greene's book she discusses how internet art has become more than just art it is about the transfer of information. Greene also speaks about hackers, and how hackers can crack into secret data bases and steal important information. I thought that this part of the chapter was especially interesting. It made me think of that early 90's movie hackers, I just thought that was humorous. Greene mentions the famous internet artist Ricardo Dominguez and how he uses internet art as a means of an installation piece. He called his piece Electronic Disturbance Theater. As a little side note, i really enjoy the title of Dominguez's work i think it does a really nice job of explaining what his piece is all about.  

Greene then goes on to discuss some other famous websites like Heritage Gold. This site used photo shop but changed the controls of photoshop. For example the choice of colors i photoshop were changed from blue and green to black and Japanese. I thought that this was a very interesting concept in that this is really not art which Heritage Gold was producing but different way to create art on the computer. I think that most of the things discussed in chapter three can only be be considered partially pieces of art because i think that when someone makes a web site, that is not a piece of art. Yes their is art used on the page but i would not consider the website an actual piece of art itself, it is the things on the site that are art. 

I do like how internet art was used for making a statement. i mean it is still used for making statements and voicing opinions on government, economy, and life in the 20th century. I really liked the TOYWAR web site Greene discussed, mainly because of the lego men. I just thought that the whole website and the idea of the site was interesting and a good way to make a statement about society.