11 Net Artists You Should Know. “Internet art” has been around as long as long as the Internet itself. A renegade thing, it’s always on the edge of new technology, with its medium functioning as its own platform. GIFs, CAPTCHA codes, found imagery, experimental social networks — the manifestations and run-off of our daily online experience is all ripe fodder for the net artist. There has been some exciting new work floating around lately, so instead of taking you back to some ’80s cave drawing era of net art, we’ll introduce you to a few fun recent net artists, ranging from the tongue-in-cheek early Internet throwbacks to the user-friendly art “tools” anyone can enjoy. Disclaimer: If you think art is pretty paintings of pretty things, this little primer isn’t for you.
In any case, we welcome your constructive snark! Santa Barbara-based Petra Cortright is one of the most alluring web artists to ever exhibit at the New Museum. Beginnings + Ends. Beginnings + Ends Survey What are the histories of artists engaging with emergent technologies? How has Post-Internet art come to be defined? And what happens next? Frieze asks eight artists, writers and curators to reflect Heinz Mack (ZERO co-founder), Sahara Project, Tunisia, 1968. Chris Wiley If art can be said to reflect the conditions of the world in which it is made, art that engages with the vanguard technology of an era can perhaps be said to have a particular purchase on contemporaneous visions of the arc of the future.
Interestingly, the current crop of artists who have been lumped into the ‘Post-Internet’ category have largely evaded this type of analysis. On the whole, these postwar artistic engagements with technology were reflective of the cautious optimism of their time. In contradistinction to this 20th-century vision, prognosticating artists of the 21st century would seem to have foreclosed any optimistic vision for the future. Katja Novitskova Constant Dullaart Karen Archey. F*ck yeah net art. Introduction to net.art (1994-1999) Street Ghosts project - Google Street View made Street Art and Public Concern. [#DIGART] 10 New Media Tumblrs To Follow Religiously. This week we’re exploring the Digital Arts Market (or lack thereof). We’re asking the tough questions: What will it take for a sustainable digital arts market to form?
Is that even a possibility? Can the digital arts make money? And will they ever be incorporated into the contemporary arts dialogue? We invite you to participate in the discussion in the comments section, on your own blog (send us the link!) Even for those of us who spend the majority of our days hunting around the strange corners of the internet, it can still hold plenty of surprises.
Phone Arts Phone Arts is a Tumblr run by internet artist Michael Manning that collects original images usable as phone backgrounds. Kim Asendorf As co-proprietor of the online-only Fach & Asendorf gallery (with Ole Fach), Asendorf booth snoops out inspiring new media art and posts his own, recently focusing on the Noog augmented reality project and his Sim City-driven video projections.
The New Aesthetic OKFocus Notes on a New Nature Eyes Say Yes. Notes on a New Nature. This was posted 10 months ago. It has 0 notes. (Source: aotooouchi, via kenmat) Introduction for Notes on a New Nature: Place, Myth, and Memory at Arti et Amicitiae This was posted 11 months ago. It has 4 notes. Moon - Jack Fisher This was posted 11 months ago. Plasticine Flowers - Julie Cockburn From Constructed Landscape Series - Dafna Talmor In the Realms of Gold - Jon Rafman This was posted 11 months ago.
Iceblack: Carsten Nicolai (via kenmat) Blog | Really Interesting Group. On Friday me and few of the GDS design team went to the Ampersand conference in Brighton. At lunch time we popped over to the Lighthouse where fellow RIG partner James Bridle is currently a technologist in residence for the Happenstance project. All last week James ran a Working shop in the reception of Lighthouse. As James explains, “I’m going to take over the reception area in Lighthouse and code in public.
I’m going to code things to make code more visible, I’m going to print it out, project it, talk about it and interrogate it.” The idea comes from this thought of James’s, “For a while now, I’ve been growing more conscious of the gap between traditional ideas of work and craft, and modern technologies. Last year I made this ‘poster’ after this tweet from Jones. At the bottom of the debate Phil wades in with an extremely wise comment, “Maybe you’re doing the wrong kind of typing?”.
Jones and I meant the email kind of typing. For me this builds on Jones’s thinking about seams. Good. Beginnings + Ends. The New Aesthetic.