디지털 생태계와 넷아트

This paper discusses the issues of communication in modern art by focusing on Net art, which utilizes the internet-based network and communication as creative source. For this, this paper begins from the underlying assumption that the evolution through reproduction, selection, and variation of “ bit DNA” constructs the digital ecosystem. Net art is an "information art" that gathers, shapes, and restructures information on the internet. The important thing in Net art is not its physical structure, but its connective capacity. Net art is targeted for the communication of information, the essence is to visualize the process of communication. Information is an organism that follows the rules of evolution such as the survival of the fittest, mutation, and reproduction. Therefore, the bit is ‘information’ that is immaterial, and can be reproduced as communication genes. Net art exists as a process of evolution in the mutual communicatory environment of digital network.