It is difficult for the web-specific artist to fix the beginning and end of their work,
for the nonlinear node-network rhetorical structure of hypertext
conspires to free the work from constraints of the traditional beginning and end.
It also renders the concept of the unitary artwork obsolete,
as each artwork is part of the grand meta-artwork that is the WEB.
This freeing has a profound impact,
as a fixed beginning and end plays a key role
in the intentional production of meaning
and in fixing the artwork's relationship with other works;
past, present, and future.
"There is no final word.
There can be no final version, last thought.
There is always a new view, a new idea, a reinterpretation".



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