Net-space is not just a merger of distantly separated media. It also concerns itself with the circulating communication programs and processes it represents as an independent cultural form, which is characterized by a general convergence of data streams. Artistic Micronations, then, exist like Teepee communities inside great powerful organisms of data. These mini-economies however are not outlaw offspring, they precisely parallel the mechanics of government structures. The tools for the permanent process of recording, to make individuals operational, are already implemented in the protocols that are building-up the digital Net.
Permanent monitoring is a Net-reality.
Empirical Taylorisme can be automatically prolonged. Recording systems are the basis of the Internet. Dataspace promises new virtual territories and redefined economic structures by their very existence. What we are witnessing throughout the Internet is a digital gold rush where corporations, nations and individuals are staking claims in mass profusion. The digital homesteads of artists verge on the brink between commercial and maverick mentality.