Why rock?

"Since 1999 the French netartists collective PAVU (aka Popular Arts Value Upgrade, 1999-2007) has created wagonloads of netart pieces that aren't comparable with anything else on the net. Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. Igor Štromajer is a pseudo-/para-artist. vnatrc.net is: A Very Important French Net Art Web Site (VIFNAWS). Founded in year 2000 by Rico da Halvarez & bituur esztreym, members of v.n.a.t.r.c.? art & disinformation artist collective (founded in Bordeaux in 1993). Talan Memmott is a hypermedia writer/artist, his hypermedia work is generally Web-based and freely accessible on the Internet. Cory Arcangel is a Brooklyn-based fine artist (b. 1978, Buffalo, NY) who makes work in a wide range of media, including composition, video, modified video games, performance, and the Internet. Dragan Espenschied (1975, Germany) is a media artist, home computer folk musician and digital culture researcher and conservator living in New York City. Alan Sondheim is a Brooklyn-based new media artist, musician, writer, and performer. Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the Internet arts collectives and communities – Furtherfield.org, Furthernoise.org, Netbehaviour.org, also co-founder and co-curator/director of the gallery space formerly known as 'HTTP Gallery' now called the Furtherfield Gallery in London (Finsbury Park), UK. 

Why rock? Curated by Annie Abrahams and Clément Charmet with texts by Alan Sondheim and Frédéric Madre. Why rock? presents sound works by net artists with real or supposed rock affinities. Why rock? Is it a need to make an adolescent dream come true or an urge to become more pop(ular)? Is it about making the body present on the screen or taking control of the power of the word? Is it an escape from net art production patterns or because we believe 21st century rock stars will emerge from the net?" -- From Turbulence