THE NET.ART INTRODUCTION

Noah heylen (2023)

INTERNET ART || NET.ART

Introduction to net.art by Alexei Shulgin and Natalie Bookchin(1994-1999)

keep in mind the socio-economic state of the world !!!

connectivity,
global reach,
multimediality,
immateriality,
interactivity
and egality

Works/Artists

carefully selected and thematically presented

Internet as a network/community

• Kings Cross Phone In by Irational.org (Heath Bunting)
• World's First Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis
• The Web Stalker by I/O/D/

code itself as an art medium!

• JODI
• Shredder by Mark Napier

(non-linear) narrativity

• My Boyfriend Came Back From The War by Olia Lialina

narrativity, emotions, real world, identity hack?

• Brandon by Shu Lea Cheang
• Mouchette by Martine Neddam
• skinonskinonskin by Entropy8Zuper!
• Molly Soda

TOWARDS ANTI COPYRIGHT, FAKE identity

• Eva & Franco Mattes
  • Hell.com copy
  • https://art.teleportacia.org/ & Art teleportacia copy
  • vaticano.org
• Documenta Done by Vuk Cosic

institutional play and equality

• TOYWAR by ETOY
• JODI in MOMA
• Female Extension by Cornelia Sollfrank
• Black Net Art actions by Keith and Mendi Obadike
• image atlas

collecting as webart / digital folklore

• Cameron's World
• One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied
• last words by Darius Kazemi
• Steps To The Moon by Gita Hashemi

corporate media

• 9 eyes by Jon Rafman
• VVEBCAM by Petra Cortright
• A Quiet Desert Failure by Guido Segni

post internet...............................................................

• Cory Arcangel
• Versions by Oliver Laric (2010)
• into time .com by Rafaël Rozendaal (2010)
• The Revolving Internet by Constant Dullaart (2010)
• Are you human? by Aram Bartholl (2017)
• What Has Been Seen by Eva and Franco Mattes
• Everest Pipkin

Other Resources

• Net Art Anthology - retelling the history of net art from the 1980s to the 2010s!
  is an online (& offline) exhibition created by Rhizome, a non-profit organisation dedicated to new media art. The website presents 100 works of net.art history. The exhibition aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible.
• WEB WORK: A HISTORY OF NET ART By Rachel Greene (Article for Artforum magazine, May 2000)
• Rhizome artbase, an archive of born-digital artworks
• Link Editions Books

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