A networked artwork is designated to be viewed on an electronic communication system, whether a Local Area Network (LAN) or the internet. Networked media include websites, email, and streaming audio or video.
Variable Media Initiative - Glossary, p. 130-137
The primary issue regarding collecting 'anti-institutional' net art ultimately isn't its content, but the general desire by many new-media artists for their work to continue to be freely and easily accessible - and apropriately displayed. Potentially, the museum can help enable this, especially over the long term, by taking some of the burdensome support functions, recognizing that such freely available and often easily replicable work may also impact the museum's traditional insistence on uniqueness and limited availability for objects in its collecton.
Dietz, 2005, p. 88
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