Post-internet art

Artists

Oliver Laric (AT-DE), Aleksandra Domanović (SR-DE), Katja Novitskova (EE-NL), Jon Rafman (CA), Timur Si-Qin (DE), Cory Arcangel (US), Marisa Olson (US), Petra Cortright (US), Ryan Trecartin (US), Artie Vierkant (US), AIDS 3D (US-DE), Harm van den Dorpel (NL), Simon Denny (NZ-DE), Amalia Ulman (AR-UK-US), ...

Events

Exhibitions & catalogues

Art Post-Internet: Information / Data, 2014, PDF, Log. Catalogue.

• Grouped Show, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Jul-Aug 2011. Selected by Robert O. Fitzpatrick. Reviews: McGarry (Artforum), Sanchez (Artforum).
• The Greater Cloud, NIMk, Amsterdam, Dec 2011-Feb 2012. Curated by Petra Heck, Aleksandra Domanovic, Oliver Laric, and Katja Novitskova. Review: Dekker.
• Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Mar-May 2014. Curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham. Catalogue. Video presentation. Reviews: Folks (AQNB), Nastasijevic (Widewalls).
• Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Sep 2014-Jan 2015. Curated by Natalia Sielewicz. [1]
• Generation Smart, NTK Gallery, Prague, May-Jun 2015. Curated by David Kořínek a Milan Mikuláštík. Review: Jindrová (A2).
• Return of the Object & The Disorder of Things, Kvalitář Gallery, Prague, Sep-Nov 2015. Curated by Václav Janoščík.
• Inflected Objects #1: Rising Automated Reasoning, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, May-Jun 2015. Curated by Melanie Bühler and Valerio Mannucci.
• Inflected Objects #2: Circulation–Mise en Séance, January 16 – May 16, 2016, De Hallen, Haarlem. Curated by Melanie Bühler.
• Les Oracles, XPO, Paris, Feb-Apr 2015. Curated by Marisa Olson.
• Surround Audience, triennial, New Museum, New York, Feb-May 2015. Curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin.
• Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage—Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Apr-Dec 2015. Curated by Gabriel Ritter.
• Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Jan-May 2016. Curated by Omar Kholeif. Review: Fuller (Mute).

Discussions

• Ways Beyond the Internet, panel discussion, DLD (Digital Life Design) conference, Munich, 23 Jan 2012. Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, speakers: Ed Fornieles, Nik Kosmas, Karen Archey, Jon Nash, Oliver Laric, Cory Arcangel, Rafael Rozendaal. Video documentation.
• Post-Net Aesthetics, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 17 Oct 2013. Moderated by Karen Archey, speakers: Harm van den Dorpel, Rozsa Farkas, Ben Vickers, Josephine Berry Slater. Video documentation.
• Já bych ty postinternety zakázala, panel discussion, Veletržní palác, Prague, 28 May 2014. Organised by KIV Gallery, moderated by Martina Poliačková and Lumír Nikl, speakers: Martin Kohout, Richard Nikl, Palo Fabuš, David Kořínek. Review: Stejskalová (A2larm).
• Lunch Bytes Conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 20-21 Mar 2015. Video documentation of closing panel discussion.

Publications

Books

Katja Novitskova, Post Internet Survival Guide 2010, 2011.

Gene McGugh, Post Internet, 2011, PDF, Log.

• Katja Novitskova (ed.), Post Internet Survival Guide 2010, Berlin: Revolver, 2011, 272 pp. [2] [3]
• Gene McGugh, Post Internet: Notes on the Internet and Art, Brescia: Link Editions, 2011. Based on his blog at 122909a.com, Dec 2009-Sep 2010.
• Omar Kholeif (ed.), You Are Here: Art After the Internet, Manchester: Cornerhouse Books, 2014. Publisher, Co-publisher. Reviews: Swift (AQNB), Sumpter (ArtReview).

Magazines

• DIS Magazine, New York, 2010ff.
• Pool, 2011.
• Elephant 23: "What is Post-Internet Art?", Frame Publishers, Summer 2015. [4]

Essays

• Marisa Olson, "Lost Not Found: The Circulation of Images in Digital Visual Culture" [Sep 2008], in Words Without Pictures, ed. Alex Klein, Los Angeles: LACMA, 2009, pp 274-284; upd. as "Postinternet: Art After the Internet", Foam Magazine 29, Winter 2011, pp 59-63. [5]
  • "Pós-Internet: A Arte depois da Internet", in Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede, eds. Helena Barranha, et al., Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2015, pp 123-136. (Portuguese)
• Artie Vierkant, "The Image-Object Post Internet", Jst Chillin' , 2010.
  • "Objekt obrazu po internetu", trans. Martin Micka, Sešit 17, Prague: VVP AVU, 2014, pp 98-119. (Czech)
• Jennifer Chan, "Stacking and Leaning: The Seduction of The Found in <Postinternet> Contemporary Sculpture", in “Real Things” Rachel de Joode, Dallas, TX: Oliver Francis Gallery, 2012, pp 60-74. [6]
• Michael Connor, "What's Postinternet Got to do with Net Art?", Rhizome, 1 Nov 2013.
• Scott Reyburn, "Post-Internet Art Waits Its Turn", New York Times, 26 Sep 2014. [7]
• Melissa Gronlund, "From Narcissism to the Dialogic: Identity in Art after the Internet", Afterall 37 (Autumn/Winter 2014).
• Stella Rieck, Shifting Relationships towards Commerce in Net Art, Post-Internet Art and Post-Digital Art, 27 Jun 2014, 57 pp. Master's thesis. [8]
• Václav Magid, "Aura postinternetového umění. Umělecká kritika masové kultury a zbožní estetiky", A2 24, Prague, 2014. (Czech)
• Václav Magid, "Ozvěny špatného smíchu. Postinternetové umění a kulturní průmysl", Sešit 17, Prague: VVP AVU, 2014, pp 66-96. (Czech)
• Brian Droitcour, "The Perils of Post-Internet Art", Art in America, Nov 2014. Based on blog post, "Why I Hate Post-Internet Art", 3 Mar 2014.
• Domenico Quaranta, "#post-internet", Flash Art 305 (Mar-Apr 2014), p 28. (Italian)
• Domenico Quaranta, "Situating Post Internet", in Media Art: Towards a New Definition of Arts in the Age of Technology, ed. Valentino Catricalà, Pistoia: Gli Ori, 2015.
• Morgan Quaintance, "Right Shift", Art Monthly 387 (Jun 2015).
• Richard Grayson, "An Internet of Things: Post Internet Art", Broadsheet 44:1, CACSA, 2015, pp 75-78, PDF.
• Paolo Magagnoli, "Digital Utopia in the Post-Internet Age", ch 4 in Magagnoli, Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary, Columbia University Press, 2015, pp 123-160. [9]
• Stefan Heidenreich, "Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I", e-flux 71 (Mar 2016).

Surveys

• "Beginnings + Ends", Frieze, Nov-Dec 2013.
• Andreas Schlaegel, "Post-Internet Art Criticism Survey", Kunstkritikk, 24 Apr 2015.
• Veronika Sellnerová, "Reflexe českého post-internetového umění", 2016. (Czech)

Primary references

• Surf clubs
• VVORK blog, eds. Aleksandra Domanovic, Christoph Priglinger, Georg Schnitzer, and Oliver Laric, 2006-12.
• The New Aesthetic blog, ed. James Bridle, May 2011-.
• Seth Price, Dispersion, 2002.

See also

Surf clubs, Net art