The reading briefly mentioned an artist who was a Net Art pioneer named Olia Lialina. She is from Moscow and makes net art as well as videos. One of my favorite pieces of hers is In Memory of Chuck Poynter. 

In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011

I couldn’t get the actual piece into this post because it is a GIF so I could only get a screenshot. The piece can be seen on her website: http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html. I am always excited when I see a GIF artist being recognized for their work because there are very few ways to exhibit a GIF. They aren’t as easy to show in galleries which makes them sometimes dismissed as important art pieces. Yet GIFs are extremely complex and take patience and skill. So when I saw this long, extremely detailed GIF I was impressed and watched it for a long time to see all of the little details put in there perfectly.

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Another artist that I think is important to the New Media arts field is Jeanette Hayes. Her work would be technically be classified as paintings but her ideas blur the lines between painting and Net Art.

This piece is a giant oil painting thats done with such an attention to detail that they seem to be just a screen capture. The subject matter in her work always includes some form of modern day technology rendered in a way that they look like their digital counterparts while still drawing inspiration from art history. She embraces new ideas in technology like iPhone apps and social media in her work using oil paint in a way that always reminds the viewer of old classical paintings.