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Writing About Zeros and One | In Conversation with Josephine Bosma
At the 3rd Inclusiva-Net Meeting in Buenos Aires in March 2009, the Amsterdam-based writer and critic Josephine Bosma presented the synopsis of her activities as a Net Art critic during the past fifteen years. In her lecture entitled “Radical Diversity - The Confluence of Art and the Internet” she propagated a strongly interdisciplinary approach to Net Art criticism, which reaches beyond a purely literary, Conceptual Art criticism. In the introduction to her talks Josephine Bosma writes: We now see the fifth generation of artists who work with computer networks. Of these five generations four worked with the Internet, and one (the first) worked with forerunners of the Internet. Current, popular definitions of net art do not describe the plurality of approaches and methods these artists used and still use. They have become limiting obstacles that block our view of this wonderfully complex terrain of mixed conceptual and material art practices. Mainstream art discourse generally fails when assessing net art by confusing it with web art. At the basis of this misinterpretation lies a lack of knowledge of even the basics of new media.