The Internet has become a "third nature." It's a new type of environment, one that grew out of the "second nature" — an industrial brick-and-mortar landscape rooted in the familiar scenery of the Earth.
Each of these environments has landmarks, special meaningful spots. In the first "nature," it's mountains, seas, rivers, sunrises, and sunsets: everything that we call natural phenomena. In the second one, it's man-made creations: cities, buildings, structures. But what about the third nature?
The answer seems obvious — Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter... Still, what "aesthetic" landmarks exist online?
Our first environment, the original nature, is full of national parks, wildlife sanctuaries — a long list. When it comes to the second, museums hold a special spot, and significantly, most of them occupied and continue to occupy central positions in that environment's landscape. The addresses of the Louvre, the MetMuseum, MOMA, the Hermitage, the Tate, and many others can only be described in one word: the center. So what can become this central point, this magnet, for a museum of online art?
That place will be taken by i.art: it is difficult to come up with a shorter and more ample message for visitors of the future museum.
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Ulvi Kasimov
Founder, .ART internet domain zone

is announcing the creation of an Internet museum. Our first step will be a public discussion — both between the interested parties and all people who care about art — and developing a concept. This will result in a venue capable of hosting and preserving the part of culture that the future generations will call Internet art.