Trying to find your way through the myriad ‘performance spaces’ of the web continues to challenge and excite me. It’s interesting, using social media spaces like FaceBook and Twitter and blogging, to develop different aspects of personality or practice. Even in my most trivial moments I’m aware of how the web is used and what the demands and prejudices of it are. Or, more precisely, let me qualify that statement: I’m still learning what those demands and prejudices are. How do we playfully dismantle (I want to avoid the word deconstruct, it’s too loaded with meaning and misinterpretation) the notion of what using the internet means?

As I move through the multiple performance spaces of the web – and these include corporate social networking spaces such as FaceBook and Twitter on to my blog at memecortex.net/blog, through to some of the places that I also occasionally write for, my behaviours are informed by an awareness of how to use the web by writers and thinkers like Geert Lovink (pulling a book from my current reading list), Josephine Bosma (who doesn't write nearly enough these days )and the writings that appear on Furtherfield and Mute et al.

The different aspects of my personality that appear on the web are as much product of the different spaces as they are of my different types of output. For example, my own blog explores writing as a practice in itself and is about developing a personal journal and writing accordingly: mostly trivial commentary on everyday things. But even within that space, I’m burdened (or buoyed aloft) by an awareness of post-modern experimental writings (even in my most banal moments it’s there at the back of my head). I’m aware of the use of the net as a performance space. I’m aware that the internet is a medium that reconfigures and gives a different context to content. Whether that’s through the use of hyperlinks (a field of study that seems dormant at present but I’m sure still has some mileage in it) or video or even that the net is the ideal space for manipulating expectations: For creating different personalities that exist only on it. Even my understanding of the net/web as a performance space, is informed by net art. And the political and social connotations of using the internet: that's a whole research discipline altogether.

Yet, I would never consider that I create net art. Or art, really. Just ‘stuff.’ Just writings or video experiments or conversations with friends. But when it comes to considering the way you communicate these things and how the medium changes and informs them, it’s a good place to start, this net art malarkey.