What is the meaning of the assumption that networks are BWPWAP, when (social) networks have become a pervasive part of our daily life, and have contributed to changing the way we create friendships and connections? If cooperation, sharing and networking became the motto of Web 2.0, what is the critical response from activists and artists working with and within networks? Rethinking the role of networked art in the immaterial economy, means shifting perspectives in the analysis of progressive commercialization of sharing and networking environments. This process implies not only imagining how to challenge the present state of economic crisis from within, but also, by reappropriating artistic practices from past decades, to work critically within network technologies, investigate experimental modes of interaction, and highlight the possible “bugs of the system.” In order to move forward, we need to operate a constant shift between the past, present and future of networking practices, imagining different possibilities of media interaction and intervention, by reframing methodologies of participation and sharing. Covering a wide range of distributed practices, from mail art to social networking and outsourcing, artists are working on the creation of new experimental visions. These visions are either based on a network mode of communication—an alternative to mainstream networking—or aim to disrupt it. By critically reflecting on strategies of mutual exchange, collaboration and cooperation, their work becomes an incentive for technological reinvention and innovation by challenging the meaning of “networking” itself.