"Is Art Dead?" or, more particularly, "Has the Internet killed Art?"
This concept is absurd. Please see the image I attach:

This image began in the "Quarterly" of the International Society of Copier Artists , ca. 1983-84. I also mass-mailed an edition of 500 copies of a postcard bearing the image, as a "panspermia"-event, a mail-borne information packet -- a "meme", an information "gene". The Internet is no different. In fact, the Internet is more direct. A published Internet object is a "meme" which helps to construct the whole of the Internet in a language which is accessible to the organic whole.
Art is the first mark a human ever consciously made on stone to express her inner self.
Art is humanity creating tools to modify the world. The value of art is the resonance in the human soul which transforms the person.
If image appropriation kills art, then art died in the 1920's when collage was invented.
The Internet may kill the producer-consumer relationship in art marketing. The Internet kills the elitist separation between producer, critic and consumer. The Internet kills the Evil in Art and allows the Good to pour forth in endless profusion. Art is Dead! Long live Art!
Ownership of art is not Art. The creation of art is Art.
http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart/Internet_tome.html

The internet democratizes again art-making. The Internet is about shameless self-promotion, unfettered self-expression.
The Internet is a collossal cacophony of voices competing to be heard. It is Art set free!

Stewart Dickson

digital artist - Calabasas, CA, USA