I recently have found a very intriguing web artists from Russia..
She has been doing internet art since 1996 with her piece "My boyfriend came back from the war" Here is a video that marks the 20th anniversary.
Here is her first work My boyfriend came back from the war. Many artists and non artists have started making their own interpretations of this piece. She has a very gritty, cyberspace feeling to her work. Her work is available to anyone who can find it, which really is world/universe wide. Olia Misses how the internet used to be when it was first developing. She loves the history of the web and continues making pieces regarding the history. She has noticed how the aesthetics of web design have changed over the years. One of the biggest changes that impacts us all is when people started creating pages for others through a paid service. It made what was fun, as an art, to be turned corporate. Olia is a great definition of a media artist. She keeps with the politics and decisions of today, she knows how to use duration in her work, and looks at every perspective possible. She also uses interactivity all the time! That what her first work was based around. I'm glad to have found out about her. Thank you.