Early net-based art (also known as Internet art, net art, net.art or webbased art) is presented in this book as evidence of a pivotal moment in digital culture. As document of a paradigm shift in media society in general, its importance goes far beyond art history. Yet the framework of art history alone can provide the basis for understanding the context, ideas, and concepts behind the works. They were created in response to a specific setting in the art world of the early 1990s. A historical view must therefore maintain this context, although the works are also significant in that they simultaneously testify to the development of the socio-technical media:

• Theory of the Avantgarde in the Age of the Internet
• Contextualisation of net-based Art
• Digital Source Criticism and Archive-Theory
• Methodological Analysis.

Contributions by Anna Bentkofska-Kafel, Dieter Daniels, Wolfgang Ernst, Verena Kuni, Barbara London, Christiane Paul, Gunther Reisinger, Marc Ries, Robert Sakrowski and Julian Stallabrass.

Dieter Daniels / Gunther Reisinger (eds.), netpioneers 1.0 - contextualising early net-based art, Berlin-New York: Sternberg Press 2010