Within a certain tradition of art, one might say that art stands alone and in front of the viewer (painting on canvas, prose on paper, images on video).
With the arrival and development of web-based writing, the way the art work is presented or shown becomes of tantamount importance and interest. It is an awareness of bandwidth but I think one can extend this attention to the interface as a reconfiguration of the role of the audience.
Digital thinkers, then, do not seem solely concerned with making hypertext available, but with making the e-writing accessible.
