Asatte - a community hub of Internet art

[stephan_e_perez]

I'm happy to announce Asatte, a new website for Internet Art. This is a community-driven archive - users can post about their own work with links, images, video & artist statements. You can also follow artists, write comments or DMs, and save works you like.

If you are here, registration is easy - you can use your MelonLand account!

Be sure to check out the About page and the introductory News post.

I've been really glad to be a part of the MelonLand forums this past year and am honored that both @Melooon and @Marziponder have already made posts. Hope to see some more of you on there.

[kringle]

this is a really cool project! im excited to see where it goes and the kind of community you'll build. as someone who mostly just makes normal non-experimental art just on the computer, i'm not sure if i'm the right person to contribute to this. but i made an account and i'm excited to see where it goes. 

will deffo chip in something if i think i've made something that fits the bill!

[Melooon]

This was a really unexpected and pleasant message to get when you first sent it to me (despite some quite funny early testing bugs I ran into like it always saying its 2025  )

I've seen a bunch of community projects linked over the years, this one is very much not in the old-weby aesthetic that I'm more used to seeing, but its easily one of my favorites, partly because of that. It's clearly got its own direction, its got a focused goal, and its just generally interesting!

It was also really exciting to see the melonland login option on a public site for the first time  I'll add in a link to it when I'm updating the nav next! Running a site can be hard work, so I wish you well and feel free to message if you need any assistance in the future!

[stephan_e_perez]

this is a really cool project! im excited to see where it goes and the kind of community you'll build. as someone who mostly just makes normal non-experimental art just on the computer, i'm not sure if i'm the right person to contribute to this. but i made an account and i'm excited to see where it goes. 

will deffo chip in something if i think i've made something that fits the bill!

Hey, thank you for registering! Your home page is super cool. I'm really happy to have people using the site just to discover art and follow artists as well. (though I still need more posters too )

This was a really unexpected and pleasant message to get when you first sent it to me (despite some quite funny early testing bugs I ran into like it always saying its 2025  )

I've seen a bunch of community projects linked over the years, this one is very much not in the old-weby aesthetic that I'm more used to seeing, but its easily one of my favorites, partly because of that. It's clearly got its own direction, its got a focused goal, and its just generally interesting!

It was also really exciting to see the melonland login option on a public site for the first time  I'll add in a link to it when I'm updating the nav next! Running a site can be hard work, so I wish you well and feel free to message if you need any assistance in the future!

That's high praise, Melon (except for you doxxing my developer woes ) and it'll be an honor to be linked on MelonLand (let me know when you add it to the nav!). Thanks again for your help testing - I'm sure I'll want your assistance again in the future.

And yes, I like old-weby stuff sometimes, but I also don't believe the only way to improve our experience with the Internet is to go back in time. I love your website design because on top of the old-web stuff, you have so many other elements - 3D graphics, interactivity, user-generated content, poetic time stamps - that synthesize something that goes far beyond nostalgia.

Also!

I've just published a news article about the origin of the Asatte logo. You can read it here.

[stephan_e_perez]

asatte news: Asatte's first month

This article focuses on works by the first four members to post their Internet artwork on Asatte: @Melooon, @Marziponder, @lycheecreature, and Miaki. You can read it here.

[lycheecreature]

Thanks for the shoutout!!