Network art is a general term for art that uses the internet as a new medium, and it is often discussed through the net.art movement. With Fluxus as one of its ancestors, it emerged in Eastern Europe during the final years of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A key role was played by mailing lists such as Nettime and Syndicate, which helped artists build global connections and practices. The field was not stylistically uniform: it included works that embraced new technologies, works that resisted them, purely playful works, and works designed to provoke debate. Examples include Vuk Ćosić’s ASCII-based works, JODI’s extreme sites that could crash browsers, and 0100101110101101.org’s projects that copied and altered websites in an attempt to subvert public media. In the early 2000s, the NEEN Manifest defined a new direction in internet art, and artists such as Rafaël Rozendaal became associated with lighter, playful, and more personal forms of expression. Network art is therefore best understood as a broad set of practices shaped by the web’s technical possibilities, its social networks, and its capacity for experimentation.