Surf clubs

A surf club is an artist-run, collective animated/image/sound blog.

Initiatives

• Computers Club
• Double Happiness
• Loshadka
• Mouse Safari
• Nasty Nets
• Spirit Surfers
• Supercentral
• Tom Moody

Artists

• Kai Altmann
• Anthony Antonellis
• Cory Arcangel
• Mark Brown
• Charles Broskoski
• Michelle Ceja
• Petra Cortright
• Nick DeMarco
• Aleksandra Domanović
• Louis Doulas
• Harm van den Dorpel
• Constant Dullaart
• Michael Guidetti
• Dennis Knopf
• Parker Koo Ito
• Martin Kohout
• Oliver Laric
• Daniel R Leyva
• Guthrie Lonergan
• Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• Eilis McDonald
• Tom Moody
• Bryan Morello
• Marisa Olson
• Ilia Ovechkin
• Rafaël Rozendaal
• Jon Rafman
• Billy Rennekamp
• Schumacher
• Pascual Sisto
• Rasmus Svensson
• Artie Vierkant
• James Whipple
• Damon Zucconi
• MTAA

Exhibitions

Online

• Montage: Unmonumental Online, curated by Lauren Cornell and Marisa Olson, Rhizome, 13 Feb-30 Mar 2008. [1]

• Netmares/Netdreams online shows, curated by Kai (Kari) Altmann and Mark Brown, 2008.

• Club Internet online shows, organised by Harm van den Dorpel, May 2008-Nov 2009.

• Mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com, curated by Tolga Taluy for the X Biennale de Lyon, Sep 2009.

• Jstchillin, 34 online shows, curated by Caitlin Denny and Parker Ito, Oct 2009-Mar 2011.

• NOISEnotNOISE, curated by Western Front, part of the symposium Noise not Noise, Mar 2010. [2]

Onsite

• Netmares/Netdreams v 2.0, Current Gallery, Baltimore, 2008. Curated by Kai (Kari) Altmann and Mark Brown.

• In Real Life, Capricious Space, New York, 7-28 Mar 2009. Works by: Art Fag City, ASDF, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, I Heart Photograph, Loshadka, Netmares/Netdreams, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb, VVORK, Why + Wherefore. Curated by Laurel Ptak.

• Image Search, curated by Jamie Sterns, P·P·O·W, New York City, Jun-Jul 2009.

• Surfing Club, curated by Raffael Dörig, Plug.in, Basel, Mar-May 2010; Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, May-Jul 2010." Booklet. Video report.

• Multiplex by VVORK, Peer to Space, Munich, 22 Apr 2010.

• New Age Default, series of shows, curated by Ben Vickers, The New Gallery, London, Sep-Oct 2010. [3]

• Dump.fm - IRL, curated by Lindsay Howard, 319 Scholes Gallery, New York, Oct 2010. [4]

• Troll, Envoy Enterprises, 131 Chrystie, New York, 1-15 Jul 2010. Curated by CTRL + WEED.

• Read/Write, 319 Scholes Gallery, New York, 17-30 Mar 2011. The final project from Internet curatorial team JstChillin, with works by 35 artists.

• R-U-In?S Underground Economies, Atelier 35, Bucharest, 10 Jun 2011. Curated by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Salvia Saitoc and Matei Samihaian.

• Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, 24 Sep-15 Oct 2011. Curated by Domenico Quaranta.

• R-U-In?S for K48, PPOW Gallery, New York, 2011. Curated and Compiled by Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Scott Hug.

• The Greater Cloud, curated by Aleksandra Domanovic, Petra Heck, Oliver Laric and Katja Novitskova, NIMK, Amsterdam, Dec 2011-Feb 2012.

• Collect the WWWorld: The Artist As Archivist in the Internet Age, House for Electronic Arts, Basel, 9 Mar-20 May 2012. Curated by Domenico Quaranta.

• Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, 319 Scholes, New York, 18 Oct-24 Nov 2012. Curated by Domenico Quaranta.

Other events

• The Great Internet Sleepover, Eyebeam, New York, 24 Aug 2007. Meetup event with members of Nasty Nets, Supercentral, Double Happiness, Loshadka and others.

Reponses to net.art

• Guthrie Lonergan, Hacking vrs. defaults chart, 2007.

Resources

• Catalog of Internet Artist Clubs by Paul Slocum, Mar 2016.

Publications

• Kevin Bewersdorf, "Spirit Surfing", Mar 2008. On surf clubs and Cornellian wunderkammern.
• Marcin Ramocki, "Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments", 27 May 2008, PDF. On surf clubs and semiotics.
• Marisa Olson, "Lost Not Found: The Circulation of Images in Digital Visual Culture" [18 Sep 2008], in Words Without Pictures, ed. Alex Klein, Los Angeles: LACMA, 2009, pp 274-284, HTML, PDF. On surf clubs and film montage.
  • "Perdido, no encontrado: la circulación de imágenes en la cultura visual digital", trans. Paloma Checa-Gismero, in Olson, Arte postinternet, México: ESAY - Escuela Superior de Arte de Yucatán, 2014, pp 9-18. (Spanish)
• Tom Moody, "New Media vs Artists with Computers", Nov 2008. On surf clubs and Duchampian found objects.
• Curt Cloninger, "Commodify Your Consumption: Tactical Surfing / Wakes of Resistance", Feb 2009. Artistic surfing from the perspective of de Certeau's 'tactical consumer'. video lecture
• Post Internet, blog, since 2009.
• Cecilia Guida, "Youtube as a subject. Interview with Constant Dullaart", Sep 2010.
• Brad Troemel, "What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan", Sep 2010.
• Brandon Bauer, "To Open .. To Collect .. To Expand .. To Continue: Richard Serra’s Verb List, Post-Internet Appropriation, and the Culture of the Use of Forms", Pool, Dec 2011.

Magazines

• PWR Paper, since 2010.
• Pool, since 2011.

See also

Net art, Post-internet art

Links

• An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers presents installation images of an exhibit that never physically took place.
• the jogging is an original content blog that displays immaterial works of art and writing.
• The Pulse
• Pootee
• Mount Olympus blog [dead link]