Published after the <net.net.net> conference and project that included hands-on workshops at CalArts and lectures at MOCA given by working artists and activists who create net.art
<Net.net.net> speakers and interviewees include Natalie Bookchin, Vuk Cosic, Critical Arts Ensemble (Steve Kurtz), Fiambrera (Santiago Barber Cortés, Jordi Claramonte i Arrufat and Curro Aix Gracia), Irational (Rachel Baker and Heath Bunting), I/O/D (Simon Pope and Matt Fuller), Olia Liliani with Florian Cramer, Geert Lovink with Sarah Diamond and Dee Dee Halleck, Jenny Marketou, Mongrel (Mervin Jarman and Richard Pierre-Davis), Rtmark ("Frank" and "Raoul"), Alexei Shulgin and Cornelia Sollfrank. The <net.net.net> interview collective includes Amy Alexander, Angus Andrew and Ian Brook, Jason Brown, Josh Caffrey, Zoe Crosher, Cathy Davies, Mollie Engelhard, Fran Ilich, Grace Kim, Jen Liu, Astra Price, Erica Redling, David Reed, Casey Schatz, Braxton Soderman, Naomi Spellman, the Toxic Titties and Nathaniel Udell
Contents
Introduction / Zoe Crosher, Natalie Bookchin, Jason Brown -- Section A. Origins -- Retrofuture -- Melancholy -- Utopia -- Nostalgia -- Section B. Artist-activist -- Action-prank -- Tools-weapons -- Revolution-terror -- Section C. Amateur conspiracy -- Collective consciousness -- Occult networks -- Sacrificial science -- Base organs -- Section D. Shit dominion -- Corporate machine -- Filthy lucre -- Soft control -- Section E. Net.art -- Machine.lang -- Art.sys -- After.net -- Section F. Writing -- Theft -- Mapping -- Reading -- Decay