ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to put the examples in the wider context of artists who use different parts of the wide spectrum of digital media in particular, artists using databases and software. It describes categories of net art in terms of Interactivity, Connectivity and Computability, Steve Dietz was describing them in terms of what they do, rather than what might traditionally appear on the wall label for artwork, that is the materials or tools, be that PHP software or servers running Apache. In 2004 the Database Imaginary exhibition curated by Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz and Anthony Kiendl examined databased art from Muntadas's The File Room, which collected evidence of artistic censorship around the world in analogue filing cabinets and, more recently, online too. Alan Currall's Encyclopaedia is another collectively authored database this time a collection of videos of homespun definitions of the kind of things that might be defined in encyclopaedia entries, but expressed as talking heads in domestic sitting rooms.
