thinking abt art in internet culture vs digital art/net art/cyber art/u kno, what the art world thinks of as digital art

(altho. when am i not thinking about this)

like. im finally doing an art history course about this. and it’s not that anything in the course is wrong, it’s that it’s very much not the whole picture. it’s a very narrow part of the picture. they’re not even deliberately excluding art in internet culture, i dont think, they literally don’t know it exists. which is wild to me! how can you be an art history lecture and not know about all this art people are making right now!!!

but like, last week’s lecture was on themes of the body. which like. yeah that’s a thing in contemporary art stuff. but you know, it’s really not a thing in art in internet culture? there is similar stuff, but it’s much more about identity than body. like sonas and stuff. but then like, sonas come from furry culture im pretty sure, and furry culture is into that i think partially bc like… there’s a lot of queer furries, autistic furries, furries with gender stuff. i dont know that it’s specifically/originally an artistic decision. altho it is an influence! furries have been hugely influential in art in internet culture!

but like, the idea of the body isn’t a thing, so much. or at least not enough of a thing to have a whole lecture about.