Jan Robert Leegte (born 1973 in The Netherlands) is one of the first Dutch artists to make work on and for the
Internet since the 1990s. In this early fase he started creating formal / material investigations within the browser for example
www.scrollbarcomposition.com. In 2002, he shifted his main focus to implementing digital materials in the context of the physical gallery space, aiming to bridge the online art world with the gallery art world, making prints, sculpture, installations, drawings and projections, connecting to historical movements like
land art,
minimalism,
performance art and
conceptualism. His career and the scenes he operated within, have been twolegged, one in the 90's net art movement, and the second in the post-internet movement, being both and neither. For example, he is featured on Jodi's Map (1997) and he joined the surf club Nasty Nets in 2009.
