Sant, Anthony, «Real performance on the pseudo network: Franklin Furnace and the Internet as an open medium». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2003 Abstract This dissertation sets out to document a significant moment in performance history: the early years of live art on the Internet as presented by Franklin Furnace, a New York-based nonprofit arts organization. In the process I also aim to create some awareness to the fact that access to the Web as a creative medium may soon be taken over by governmental and commercial interests to be regulated and controlled like radio and television broadcasting. Since 1998 I have closely observed the performances presented online by…