Chapter 2 internet art

After reading chapter two of Greene's Internet Art there were many thing which i found to be very interesting. Greene starts off by discussing E-mail based communities. She discusses how e-mail based communities emerged and their gain in popularity. I don't know if i would consider e-mail and sending information via email a form of artistic expression, but to some this method of sending information electronically over the Internet can be seen as a form of art. For example on page 75 there is piece of art, if you want to call it that, done by Heath Bunting and Natalie Bookchin. It is just a page with some information on it like one wold receive in an email, that is not art! Greene then goes on to discuss exhibition formats and collective projects. Exhibition formats is a pretty bland topic, i think, all green talks about in this section how how some Internet art is presented. But then she talks about how there are big collective project being done in the Internet art world. I think that collective projects a a necessary part of any type of art. i think that from working with other artists one can use their ideas and techniques to build on their own. Greene then goes on to talk about several things in chapter two the talks about browsers and how browsers are used on the Internet. Its funny though because still iwould have to say that a browser cannot be considered a piece of art because i mean you can make it aesthetically pleasing bot to actually get it that way you have to work with codes, and i think that typing in code should not be considered an art form. And in the last section of this chapter Greene talks about distribution has changed due to the Internet. I would definably agree with the fact that the Internet has made distribution of product much easier for people. it makes products available all over the world. And finally she talks about the sexual personae and hoe the Internet has allowed people to better express their sexual persona via the Internet.