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Net Art Archive Turbulence.org Going Offline, Raising Preservation Concerns

by Rea McNamara on May 10, 2016

An important internet art archive will soon shutter. Turbulence.org, an online project that has commissioned new net art and networked hybrid artworks since the mid-1990s, announced over the weekend it would be going offline on December 31, 2016.

According to the announcement — made via a mass email to past and present artists, as well as in a public Facebook update — the organization can no longer sustain the operating costs needed to maintain its online archive.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Hacking Dystopias

by Michael Anthony Farley on February 22, 2016

This weekend’s must-see events include a lot of AFC’s friends and favs, from Friday’s discussion on hacktivism as part of Joyce Yu-Jean Lee’s project FIREWALL Internet Cafe to fundraiser events featuring the work of AFC’s own Matthew Leifheit and F.A.G. Bar artist Macon Reed on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. But during the week, do check out solo shows from Leanne Shapton (Tuesday) and Sherrie Levine (Wednesday). Thursday’s all about dystopia, with sci-fi cityscapes by Romain Erkiletlian and found hyper-generic product packaging from Maryam Jafri. Hack on, New York.

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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Let’s Get Real

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on January 13, 2014

If the economy has given us one gift in the emerging art world, it’s a lot of activities involving sweatbands and opportunities for cheap dates. This week is no different.

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Wednesday Links: A New Internet is Born

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on October 2, 2013

20×200 sent out an email to its customers yesterday promising the return of the company. No relaunch details in this story, but plenty of background. [Pandodaily]
Bloomberg says he won’t be stepping in to save the City Opera, because “its business model doesn’t seem to be working”. [Artsbeat]
A new Internet has been born. Occupy.here is a wifi network which runs completely independently from the Internet; from what we gather, it’s still in BBS message board stage and dependent on your proximity to an Occupy router, but it’s growing. Occupy.here creator Dan Phiffer will be speaking about the project at this weekend’s PRISM-Break hackathon at Eyebeam. [Rhizome]
Just what nobody needed: A month long Banksy exhibition on the streets of Lower Manhattan. [Artsbeat]
New York Magazine reports that the piece has already been vandalized. [New York Magazine]
Does one bad apple spoil the bunch? Greg Allen considers four possibly forged Barnett Newman paintings in the wake of the Knoedler scam. He ends with an offer to buy the Knoedler Newmans from collectors…“Assuming they can be authenticated, of course.” [gregorg]

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