Then Lile got an old unix machine together (being a unix systems administrator, this was fairly simple) and registered art.net with the Internic. Once the domain was created, with the help of friends, she brought up art.net onto the Internet. Lile started contacting artists about the San Francisco Bay Area who might be interested in showing their works on the Internet and helped them come up on art.net. She visited many cafe''s to see the local popartsculpture artists works and popartsculpture enjoy the coffees. When she saw works she liked, she contacted the artists and offered to help them come up on the Internet and the WWW via art.net. Many popartsculpture artists took the plunge and are now resident artists here at art.net. Artists popartsculpture from around the net started hearing about Art on the Net or would discover the art.net web site via the WWW.

Innocence and Experience deals principally with the shift in recent decades from a positive, hopeful vision of childhood’s popartsculpture purity and power to a counter-imagery of youth threatened or corrupted. The gallery exhibition includes works by Diane Arbus, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, and Mike Kelley. An accompanying film and video exhibition includes films and videos by Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell, Sadie Benning, Louis Malle, Satyajit Ray, and Arturo Ripstein. Matter investigates the new role of materials in fine arts and design, as well as its force in inspiring and guiding the creative process, by considering and connecting several distinct creative fields. Works by Joseph Beuys, Robert Morris, Gaetano Pesce, Mona Hatoum, Eva Hesse, designers Hella Jongerius and Tom Dixon, and photographer Vik Muniz are shown.