The net.art Restoration Project

The world wide web is in decay. Much of what was created over its lifetime has disappeared from neglect or deliberate corporate purging.

Original Art

retrieved 2023-04-23Light on the Net Project (1996)

About the Artwork

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This is Light on the Net Project from 1996. You can go ahead and click around. You'll see a lot of missing images, broken links, and unstructured text. But it's the best known copy of this piece. It's a shame because Light on the Net Project is a beautiful and important telematic work from the last century.

Here's some historical context:

A work by Masaki Fugihata is enjoyable in part because it is immediately gratifying. Shown in real-time 24 hours a day, it allows viewers to click the lightbulbs in a grid on and off, controlling the bulbs in an actual sculpture located in an office building in Japan.

~ ArtByte (2001)

Digital artworks decay quickly. Over the next four screens I'll guide you through a restoration process to combat the mass loss of culture.

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