Internet art: chapter 4

The chapter begins with a very interesting story. The story is about a piece by Wolfgang Staehl, in September of 2001. He positioned cameras in very populated areas, such as a castle in Bavaria, the TV tower in Berlin and the skyline of lower Manhattan. His original objective was to capture the normal progression of everyday life at these locations, except one of them happened to capture something completely unexpected. The skyline of lower Manhattan captured the attack on 9/11. This turned into an articulation of the role mass media images could potentially take on. It inadvertently turned into a piece of journalism, and documented the aftermath of the tragedy until October. I didn't know that the internet had advanced so much in the last ten years. I thought that most of what we have today, was available in the late 90's. Additionally, I liked Keith Obadike's piece were he put his blackness for sale. In his piece he tells the advantages and disadvantages of his race. It is a very different take on how identities are structured in relation to the ways they can be objectified or sold. This chapter displays the reaction of artists to the shift in the internet to a unprivate and  business based system.