When I was attending graduate school for my master's in Visual and Critical Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), I took an academic Art History course with James Elkins called "Writings on North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives." In this course we explored the lack of diversity, or rather, uniformity in the ways Art History, Criticism, and Theory are written. (He wrote a book about it if you are more interested in the subject.) As a final project, we could either propose a new way of writing about these subjects, or (as an alternative for studio artists) we could add a new section to Art History since 1900s on a movement that was not included. For reasons I cannot understand to this day, I decided to do the latter instead and created a chapter on net.art while the rest of my really smart colleagues deeply researched the subject and created innovative and thought provoking-forms of writing Art History. As an added bonus, I also decided that I cared a lot about the aesthetic this chapter would have. The document has hyperlinks that lead you to these really cool old websites (DO NOT BLAME ME IF YOUR COMPUTER GETS A VIRUS FROM THEM) and a couple of hidden ones because I liked the idea of Jim Elkins frantically clicking through the document trying to find them. You can download the document here if you are interested in experiencing it in its entirety. 
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