ABSTRACT
Discussing and comparing several documentation strategies requires a reconsideration of conservation practice and theory in favour of documentation. Manovich suggests that software culture is moving beyond the twentieth century terminology of document, work, message or recording. In networked and distributed environments, where multimedia documents are more the rule than the exception, fixity is still present in the display of Web pages. Net art can be understood as performative in terms of the meanings ascribed to it as well as in terms of the effects of its performance on the movements of data and information in communication networks. Such performativity of code also means that code is not one-to-one reversible, nor can it be seen as pre-set instructions for execution. A hyperlink connects to specific data in the same text or to information outside it. Naked on Pluto is built as a client/server online game, which typically means that various gamers connect to a server and play.
