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A little while back I was intrigued and puzzled by the idea of a .net art panel discussion in a folk art museum. Now it's starting to make sense sense to me - Sal Rudolph posted some high points from another recent .net aesthetics panel, among them:

Outsider Imagery -- The widespread influence of what one of the artist's (Michael Bell-Smith) called 'internet folk art' -- animated gifs, avatars, personal blogs, home pages, mashups, game sprites, etc. All of the individual quirky production of gazillions of internet users. If you include webcams in that list, then all of the artists on the panel used some of these elements and aesthetics.