Net.Specific

Created in 2012, Net.Specific is the Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition platform for net-based art. By introducing Net.Specific, the museum wishes to widen its exhibition area to include the Internet. This is made possible by integrating net art as a new media and by using the Internet as an exhibition space. The name Net.Specific refers to net art as a site-specific form of art developed to exist online and use the net as material. The museum will host temporary exhibitions on Net.Specific and will focus both on how users experience net art on their computers at home, and on the environment for which the works were made. 

Net art fits naturally into the Museum of Contemporary Art’s main focus, namely the transient and performative arts. With such artistic ancestry as conceptual art and Fluxus, it makes use of strategies comparable to how mail art uses the mail system and the artistic collaborations and networks that follow – all of them transgressing physical frontiers. What these art forms have in common is the consideration for the way we communicate and the culture and networks that arise.