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“Don't use the internet as a fucking condiment”: Net Art at Art Dubai

by Alana Chloe Esposito on March 30, 2012
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Acquisitions of net art by the Tate Modern, the Guggenheim, and other institutions have given institutional validation to the genre, but complicated curatorial debates rage over what exactly it includes: Can it be shown on a computer in a gallery? Can it only be viewed online? Can art not based on code count as net art?

At (It’s Not) Net Art 2: Emancipate the Medium!, one panel at Art Dubai's Global Art Forum, heated debates began over nearly every aspect of the medium, from its formal qualities to its politicization and the notion that it is inherently radical. This argumentativeness is perhaps unsurprising given that the medium lacks a strict definition.

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Net Artists Warned Us About SOPA 15 Years Ago

by Will Brand on January 3, 2012
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A year ago, Paul Garrin’s DNS alternative sounded crazy. After SOPA, he sounds like a visionary. A history, and an apology.

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Massive Links! New Media and NYTimes Trends Edition

by Paddy Johnson on April 15, 2011
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In this edition of Massive Links: Stuff that will kill you, Nicholas O’Brien on Read/Write and scads of Rhizome news. Also, don’t miss tonight’s conversation at the New Museum with Olia Lialina and Dragon Espenschied.

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Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University’s Mulberry Gallery

by Paddy Johnson on February 15, 2011
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I’ve curated another show. Graphics Interchange Format is a survey of animated GIFs and it launches this Friday Denison University’s Mulberry Gallery. I’ll be heading to Ohio this afternoon for the install — uber nerds can follow me on twitter as I tweet up a storm about the installation process. The slightly less nerdy, uber-nerd can simply read the press release I’ve written up on the subject below and click on the links. GIFs are an important medium. If this show is a success — and I think it will be — it will demonstrate that. A website for the show will launch next week.

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Best Link Ever! Harm van den Dorpel’s Ethereal Others

by Karen Archey on September 18, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo AFC Do men only surf the internet bare chested? This week’s Best Link Ever, Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel‘s etherealothers.com archive of webcam photographs seems to indicate as much. Etherealself.com–the site’s predecessor and source of content–launched in 2008, prompts a browser’s webcam activity, splicing bits of the visitor’s visage […]

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Best Link Ever! Centaurs with Tri-Titted Babes and Slim Thug

by Karen Archey on July 31, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Photo via fuckyeahdude.org THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF WORKSAFE. Now that we have that out of the way, this week’s Best Link Ever goes to Billy Rennekamp‘s blog itsreal.com. Featuring a menagerie of purposefully unstructured, doctored images set against Slim Thug’s “Like a Boss,” itsreal.com falls into prototypical “netart with a […]

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Promised Notes on Notes: Ed Halter’s After the Amateur

by Art Fag City on July 9, 2009

Chris Reid‘s Super Soaker Collection. Via: Guthrie Lonergan When it rains, it rains. Coinciding with The New York Times‘ tiresome obsession with the perils of professionalism in the art world, Rhizome’s Ed Halter produced a text this April describing the professional, the amateur, and a new category he calls the sub-amateur. The paper is amongst […]

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Portrait, Portrait on the Wall, Who’s the Weirdest of Them All?

by Karen Archey on May 27, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: Awkard Family Photos Lately at AFC Headquarters we’ve noticed a stunning array of weird portraits. Running in the form of blogs and fine art projects, we’ve compiled a selection of the finest oddities. Jamie Diamond, “The Hiltons,” 2008. Archival pigment print, 40 x 60 in. Image via: Moeller Snow […]

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