De/generative Narratives: Net Art and Textual Adaptation

Over the past two decades, Internet art, an emerging art form within the category of new media art, has been gaining in popularity and ­status. The study of net art is particularly relevant to the notion of literary adaptation. Given its inherent flexibility, networking capabilities and information digitalization, the Internet offers numerous and ­innovative opportunities for importing and adapting print texts into an electronic environment. Rachel Green has pointed out that the web provides ­artists with “an environment uniquely hospitable to many diverse media: ­programming and animation, video and audio, gameplay and ­community. Given this environment, individual artists pick up these threads and weave them in novel combinations.”¹ 1 - Rachel Green, Internet Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004), 15.