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Broken Images No. 25, @JanRobertLeegte, 2023 Acquired by @lerandomart on Jun 19, 2023 Jan Robert made his first net art works in 1997, two years after the launch of the Nettime mailing list: 1995: Nettime Forms and net[.]art Begins "In the spring of 1995, Nettime, a mailing list and platform that was instrumental in the formation of net[.]art, formed. The list featured some of the earliest net[.]art pioneers and coined the term itself. It consisted of JODI’s Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, Geert Lovink, Heath Bunting, Vuk Ćosić and Alexei Shoulgin. Organized by Lovink, Nettime as a group met in June at the Venice Biennale, laying the foundation for what was to come. By fall, nettime-l had taken root, fostering the exchange of ideas and discourse and some of the earliest net[.]art. Ćosić explained to the author (Peter Bauman) how in his view JODI were the first net[.]art practitioners: ”On the nettime list itself we didn’t post net[.]artpieces that could be displayed or collected but we spoke about it and gave it life. I personally adored the JODI posts that were consistently pushing the idea of net[.]art as a liberating force. They were the first in many regards.”"