and i really wonder why is it so important
for net.artists to talk about their work?
because a great deal of net.art has a history that looks more to
things like fluxus and conceptual art than art as representation.
once you do this the 'frame' that helps anyone see it as art gets
hard to see and so one way to make it visible is to contextualise it
via commentary.
i've had plenty of students write web pages that don't work (unclosed
table tag). but is it art? no. but how would you know that jodi.org's
white page was art without some form of contextualisation
(talking/writing about it?)