A net art room

Works made with the web, to be seen on the web

Net art is art whose material is the browser itself: the scroll, the tab, the cursor, the size of the window, the errors, the code. It doesn't hang on a wall and it doesn't fit in a photo. You look at it like any website: by going in.

Works

• Wear

  Year

  2026

  Materials

  A letter, a monospaced font and your scroll

  Made with

  Taller ASCII, Taller Glitch

  A letter that wears away as you read it. What you leave behind turns into symbols, then dots, then nothing. Scrolling back up doesn't fix it.

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• While you're away

  Year

  2026

  Materials

  The tab title, the favicon and your attention

  Made with

  Taller Píxel

  A piece that happens in the tab, and only when you're not looking. Switch to another one and this one starts talking. When you come back, it tells you what you missed.

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• 800 × 600

  Year

  2026

  Materials

  The size of your window

  Made with

  Retro

  An image that only comes together with the window at 800 × 600, the size of almost every screen in 1998. The further off, the more it scatters.

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• My homepage (1998)

  Year

  2026

  Materials

  Table-based HTML, a tiled background, marquee, hit counter, guestbook and one broken link

  Made with

  Taller Píxel, Retro

  The website Joe Doe would have put up in 1998, still under construction. With music, a webring and everything that later vanished from the internet.

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• Not Found

  Year

  2026

  Materials

  This site's error page, a video with no keyframe and your mouse

  Made with

  Datamosh

  It's the real error page: any address that doesn't exist on this site melts, like a video that has lost its keyframe. A click puts it back together.

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Further reading

The pieces that made me want to do this. Almost all of them are still online, which on the internet is saying a lot.

• My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (Olia Lialina, 1996)
  A story told in HTML frames that split into smaller frames with every click.
• wwwwwwwww.jodi.org (JODI, 1995)
  It looks like a broken website. View the source: that's where the drawing is.
• One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age (Olia Lialina, Dragan Espenschied, 2013–)
  Screenshots of personal GeoCities pages, rescued before it shut down in 2009.
• Rafaël Rozendaal (Rafaël Rozendaal, 2001–)
  Each work is a whole domain: one website, one idea, sold the way a painting is sold.
• Net Art Anthology (Rhizome, 2016–2019)
  A hundred works from the history of net art, restored so they can still be seen today.

The workshops

The tools I use to break, convert and paint the images in some of the works. They're open: you can use them too.

• Taller Glitch: Break images, video and text.
• Taller ASCII: Photos and camera to characters.
• Taller Píxel: Pixel art and console palettes.