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Art Post-Internet: INFORMATION / DATA

This understanding of the post-internet refers not to a time “after” the internet, but rather to an internet state of mind — to think in the fashion of the network.

the category of the post-internet describes an art object created with a consciousness of the networks within which it exists, from conception and production to dissemination and reception

distribution, language, the posthuman body, radical identification, branding and corporate aesthetics,painting and gesture, and infrastructure.

constellation of physical and immaterial elements

series revolving around networks, social institutions, groups identities, and gender dynamics,

As much as new social uses of technology have

changed the distribution and authorship of art, so too

have they disrupted the workings of publishing and the

dissemination of texts in and about art — not to mention the

ways in which we consider reception.

approach to the gender and power dynamics of the depiction of women online,

One of the most prominent visual signatures today

is dominated by sterile corporate aesthetics and consulting

lingo, branding exercises both online and off, a parroting

or parodying of the fashion and advertising worlds, and,

perhaps most durably, the stock image — that uncanny branch of

photography that maximizes its situational applicability via

its vacant blandness

develop an analysis of how the channels of

capitalist production effect the circulation of contemporary

culture as a form of content.

most efficiently visible in the exchanges of digital painting:

the history of how software engineers modeled the movements

of paint has become a touchstone for a generation of artists

interested in drawing these models off of the screen and onto

paper or canvas, exploring the boundaries of painting — that

sometimes-hackneyed goal for so much of art after modernism —

in a changing digital world.]

How do you define ‘post-internet’? How does thisterminology relate to artistic practices?

Juliette Bonneviot Post-internet is anything that takes the idea of the internet as a starting point. The internet can be understood as an historical era and as an ecology of systems, a logic of networks — a very wide framework indeed. Any work

that consciously comments on or includes the logic of the net is considered postinternet

Harry Burke “Post-internet” is reminiscent of a network of art practices that began to develop a critical currency in 2009 and mainstreamed (in the art world) in 2011 and (outside the art world) in 2012.

Esther Choi I would define “post-internet,” in the broadest terms, as a set of modalities and sensibilities that self-referentially respond to the Internet’s advent and cultural influence.

Like post-conceptualism, post-internet artistic

production inherits and expands on the discourses of

media art and systems-based artistic strategies, and

focuses its attention to the cultural impact of the

Internet’s technologies, material arrangements, and

procedural operations.

Michael Connor Post-internet to me was a perspective that emerged out of moment, a series of moments that played out (and are maybe still playing out) in slightly different ways in different places at different times.

Tyler Coburn (1) Post-internet denotes a network of specific individuals ranged acrossphysical and virtual localities, making work in conversation over the past severalyears.(2) Post-internet delineates the moment when certain artistic practices assumemarket viability, despite the earnestness and seriousness that informed Gene McHugh’s seminal work on the term.

Ben Davis “post-internetart” is an attempt to recapture internet art for galleryculture.

Simon Denny I see it as other people’s role to define this

term. As it is a term produced by others, I rely on

external indications of which ideas, curators and artists

are associated with this term.

Raffael Dörig Marisa Olson’s original methodological notion of post-internet based on “art on the internet” vs. “art after the internet” was quite useful — to describe a practice that was crucial to a new generation of artists working with the internet as a part of everybody’s everyday life.

Brian Droitcour The vagueness ofpost-internet, paired with the assumption that everyone knows what it means, isone of the most aggravating things about it. “

“How can we be post-internet when internet is still here? Shouldn’t it be during-internet” — doesn’t seem to hold

up under scrutiny.

Post- presupposes finitude, closure, knowing retrospection. Proto- points to

multiplicity and possibility. An art that is proto- would approach the internet’s

ubiquity not as a boring given but as a phenomenon ripe with transformative

potential for the mediation of people and art (or people and people),

Orit Gat the first, as a statewhich is so expansive we’re basically all implicated in it — a reaction to thedependency on the internet and its growingly corporate structure — what mostpeople would call “internet-aware,” perhaps. The second is a certain group ofartists, all but a social scene, spread between New York, London, and Berlin

Ann Hirsch Originally post-internet meant an awareness of how the internet has fully permeated our lives. From daily mundane functions to relationships to the way we perceive culture and the way it is being spread.

Omar Kholeif I tend to adopt the common notion that post-internet is art that is “internet aware”

Elise Lammer the world feels fragmented, accelerated and inpermanent flux. To me, post-internet simply translates our current experience ofspace and time.

Gene McHugh It doesn’t address a “new media” and thusdoesn’t inhabit a cultural niche; rather it addresseswhat rapidly had become the common, everyday mediaassociated with the internet and its related digitaltools.

Ceci Moss It’s not a progressivedevelopment, but a deep reflection on the instant. are an attempt to define the operative reality of howinformation is captured and networked, and how artists engage in dialogue with thatlogic.

Marisa Olson “internet-engaged art.” It’s more than a wordthat prefaces “art” in the phrase, “postinternet art.” Today I use the term morebroadly to think about the social conditions of life in network culture.

Aude Pariset First, it describes a general condition where the Internet has finished“colonizing” the mind of most individuals. work has emerged in the same time as the awareness of theunavoidable banality of the internet era.

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