- Of all the responses in Karen Archey and Robin Peckham’s Art Post-Internet catalogue questionnaire about the term, my favorite comes from Christiane Paul, who corrects the idea that Marisa Olson coined “Post-Internet.” Josephine Berry Slater talked about post-internet art two years earlier in 2003 during her introduction at a symposium at Tate. Paul also refutes the idea that the term will have any longevity. Post-Medium says the same thing, but with less confusion. [Art F City]
- Apparently, exercise makes you live longer. Who knew? This article describes the importance of one’s “fitness age,” which, unlike your chronological age, can be lowered. [The New York Times]
- A profile on Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, a performance artist whose film “Hermitos Children 2” includes a scene in which a man has his penis strung up in a noose by a boatload of women. The scene was improvised. [Time Out]
- Because husky puppies are cute. [@HereBeHuskies]
- Because dogs trying to smile is cute. (Thanks you, Here Be Huskies.) [Bark Post]
- We’re getting excited about the Pratt Upload conference! Alex Teplitzky is DJing the Art F City-sponsored after party at the Emerson this Saturday. Here’s the soundcloud preview he made for the party. [Nabocough]
- The greatest hoodie ever made costs $89.00. Sales are through the roof, thanks to a Slate article. [Business Insider]
- Skate’s Reports has produced a London auction preview for ARTnews. At what point does Sergey Skaterschikov’s investments compete with one another? Redline, the Russian company with a stake in artnet that Skate’s is advising, seemingly competes with Artnews, which owned by Skate’s Capital. Skate’s Capital also owns a stake in Paddle8 that seemingly competes with artnet. Is the point to assemble one giant conglomerate? [ARTnews]
- Eight-year-old nails the Patrick Swayze half of the Dirty Dancing finale. We are led to believe that this is entirely learned from watching the movie a handful of times, which seems impossible. Somebody enroll the boy in a dance class. [Gawker]
- A British parrot went missing for four years and returned speaking Spanish. [The Daily Breeze]
- Wall Street plummets. [New York Times]
Wednesday Links: Stop Taking Credit for “Post-Internet”
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It does get pretty tiresome every time the topic of “post-internet” comes up and Olson has to claim it… seems like the conversation around it isn’t served by a gatekeeper… but the Moholy-Nagy anecdote may also be questionable: http://greg.org/archive/2012/06/20/rethinking_telephony_from_moholy-nagy_or_rtfm.html
I was curious: in the light of his “old man yelling at clouds” moment not too long ago (“Why I Hate Post-Internet Art”), did ArtFCity reach out to Droitcour?
What a great post by Greg. I hadn’t seen that.
We linked to Droitcour’s post and read through the comments. I haven’t spoken with him about what he wrote, but that would be weird. He trolled the blog for years. It’s only been this year that he seems to have eased up. No idea why.
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