While I do not bother myself with discussions of netopia, I am
optimistic with regard to contemporary art that our intentions are to
update and revise. To cut, paste and edit. To become transgressive
"mixers" of contemporary "culture." I like to use the term DJ in an
expansive sense of the word inclusive of all media, e.g. images, sounds,
text and even further and fully: water, air and sex.

There has been much talk lately of a new art movement, art for the
internet and/or net specific works. I have traveled naively searching
for this movement only to re-discover DADA. I enjoy DADA. I enjoy mostly
standing on the shoulders of giants. However, I long for that which
culls the information acquired by our predecessors and then employs it
so as to create "new" information. New information that not only moves
beyond DADA but, also moves beyond our current time and cultural
placement(s). I like to think of this type of information not as
information at all but instead as indecipherable transmissions.

These transmissions are sent from the future and are overwhelming in
energy and presence. By this I mean events that provoke participation at
the psychic level, as does experience, memory, nostalgia or thinking of
one's future.

Subversion to the dominance of language (multi-linked sites, mirrored
mockery-type sites, multiple net identities and other "clever" gestures
of many web works) will find its definitive end in trend and commerce.
These approaches to net art are timely and predictable and will soon
take their place in a ever expanding and incorporated lexicon called
postmodernia. It is 1998 and pan-capitalism effectively and cohesively
utilizes artists as seedlings for an even more profitable future.

This text is intended as a callout. Subversion must continue to exist
though I am not sure it is still called subversion. I am currently
attempting new solutions and/or transmissions.