net art anatomy
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Net Art Anatomyby Rhizome http://rhizome.org/
facilitator: Scott Meisburger @protonpopsicle
What is Rhizome?
• http://rhizome.org
• non-profit art organization based on the internet
• support contemporary art that creates richer and more critical digital culture
• online since 1996
Format• short presentation, looking at art
• workshop
• 4 different stations
• breaks on the hour
• participants will be asked to present
History of Net Art?• 90s
• the beginnings of the web, radical, non-commercial
• interested in form and materiality of code
• 00s • exploring social functions, sharing ie Delicious
• artists adopt commercial web tools, ie YouTube
• late 00s / early 10s • the term ‘postinternet’
• acknowledging the web is not a separate space
• the gallery is just one 'node' in the circulation of images
Surf Clubs
• early 2000s
• artists blogging together
• a feedback loop of image creation and consumption
• proto-Tumblr
• http://newhive.com/mollysoda/up-in-the-cloudstitle
• http://newhive.com/penny/terribl
• http://newhive.com/anac/cuddling
• Net.Art
• HTML pages exploring aesthetics of computer errors
• http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/, 1995
• http://geogoo.net/, 2008
• Aestheticizing interface
• http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
• changes over time since form elements are rendered by operating system
• creative practice on Twitter is diverse
• idea of the “bot”
• @Horse_ebooks
• posted entertaining non sequiturs
• outed in 2013
• originally a Twitter account
• retweet if contains “working on my novel”
• work seeks to find meaning in an aggregate
• Lithuanian artist Laimonas Zakas
• https://twitter.com/glitchr_
• style associated with “Zalgo” meme
• http://www.eeemo.net
• diacritical marks
Platforms
• the practice is platform agnostic
• Andy Baio’s intervention on medium
• https://medium.com/@waxpancake/d0b32422b05
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