experimentation

Like all artists, most of the work that made it to the final presentation was the result of experimentation, with many failures and accidents often turning out better than my original idea.

John Maeda, John Maeda on Computational Evolution

Net.art was just an element in a broader form of digital experimentation and digital creativity that was happening and that broader ethos was very much about decentralization, anti-authoritarianism, bottom-up approaches and anti-surveillance.

Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain