Berry: Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement

Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement by Josephine Berry, is an essay on the NetArt Commons: Slash Site about net art projects and the free software movement. It is part of OPEN SOURCE ART HACK, which I think is a NetArt Commons topic (but I am still figuring out the site) and an exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

The article, and others on the site, seem of a higher quality than those on other sites (they have bibliographies!). Here is a quote,

o the comparison between avant-garde art and free software does more than point out the collective nature of cultural production; it also points to the revolutionary effects this realization may have when the consumer and the producer become indistinguishable. This same dream of indistinctness also underpins the avant-garde wish to dissolve art into life or, better, to realize art as a practice of life.