Abram came and spoke with us about net.art. he gave us a brief history of it, along with demonstrating some of his own work. from ascii art to infiltration and pranksterism: read its history here at aphid.org net.art: [link]

abram stern is interested in the development of decentralized emergent systems that produce ephemeral situations. The generation of static artifacts (ie artwork) may occur as by-product but is not the primary goal of his work. abram is mostly interested in the deterritorialization of hierarchical structures and relationships through the use of participative telepresence technology... (more) [ http://www.aphid.org/]