I am not even going to pretend that I understood everything I read and heard this week, and it is very possible that I have missed the point completely.  But what a cool idea.  Art doesn’t have to part of the art industry or the art establishment.  Internet art can be a kind of outlaw art.  It can bounce around the internet, from person to person, changing as it goes.  Art in the computer age.

                I am part of the computer age.  I can’t remember a time without the computer really.  I have it on all the time.  I socialize on it, entertain myself on it, and even sometimes do my homework on it.  I love video games, not just to play, but how they look--how the world of the game looks.  They don’t call it video art for nothing. I do believe computer art can be unique, and use the medium to its advantage. 

                I can understand why some people would want to see art in person.  There is power in seeing a piece close up.  But some computer art is unique in that you cannot really see it in person.  Look at pixel art.  It’s actually better when you see it on the computer.  When you print it out, it just looks wrong.  And social media can also have a role in computer art.  Why not?  The internet changes all the time as people add things to it.

                Now, I’ll admit that computer art does not have its “Mona Lisa” moment yet.  But every day people are experimenting with this new art form.  Any day now, we could see something new and earth shattering.  And even if computer art never has its “Mona Lisa” moment, maybe that’s ok.  It is what it is.  It allows many people to see art, and maybe even participate in it.