This year's Biennial marks the first major American survey of contemporary art to feature current developments in Internet art. It opens Thursday and runs through June 4. An impressive number of really exciting works have been made, and a substantial critical dialogue has developed that is slowly but surely drawing in mainstream art historians and theorists. As of 2000, Internet art can no longer be ignored as a legitimate art form. The nine artists whose works were chosen represent a wide range of visual styles and multimedia content.
Sites range from the literary to the abstract, from the conceptual to the satirical.
Mark Amerika's Grammatron , created in 1997, and Darcy Steinke's Blindspot , created in 1999, represent hypertext fiction. Blindspot features a mysterious text and moody images, and utilizes frames to introduce 19 shorter sub-stories. Use this version. E-mail this to a friend. Wired Digital Inc., a Lycos Network site.