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A selection of places, nodes, intersection points: precisely those in which a critical conception of net.art as direct communication can be found.
Of course, there is no fixed formula, nor any single model. In any case, we have taken a few decisions: not to list purely informative websites, whether institutional or commercial, nor those which point towards an 'organism' different from or behind themselves. All of the websites we present are just themselves; they are, in this sense, 'specific objects',they have a certain significant autonomy, a certain sense of belonging to themselves.
Above all, we are interested in them as 'specific location units', as tensional communication nodes. We have not wanted to restrict ourselves only to those which exclusively present 'works', precisely because we understand that this communicative activity, which we identify as net.art, is not so much a matter of producing exclusive stylised or attractive visual forms, but rather one of diffusing the tools for a critical understanding and intensified communication.
In this sense, text has the same value as images and in fact, it seems to us that the practices we call net.art confirm a profound collision in the economies of text and images. So, we have no doubt that including "Rhizome" or "CTheory" in our list makes as much sense as including ada'web or the Moscow Web Art Centre.
No Top 10 list of works or artists will be found here, but rather a selection -out of many- of those that we consider to be the main junctions on the highway where communication is enabled to participate, more actively, in the critical construction of a practice which only recently we have begun to call Net.art. We believe that therein lies its interest, and as such we offer it for display in the public domain constituted by the net.

As an hommage to the index in which we, as most of the Spanish-speakinkg net.surfers, have meet for the very first time most of these places, we recommend here a visit to the pages of Laura Baigorri's index