Net art
Resource on net art, internet art, net-based art, net-based installations, web art, web-based art.
Artists, writers
- 0100101110101101.org
- Annie Abrahams
- Mark America
- Artnode
- Aram Bartholl
- Tilman Baumgärtel
- Joachim Blank
- Natalie Bookchin
- Mez Breeze
- Heath Bunting
- Eric Butler
- Jennifer Chan
- Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
- Vuk Ćosić
- Annet Dekker
- Julien Deswaef
- Eleonora Oreggia
- Entropy8Zuper!
- Dragan Espenschied
- Etoy
- Fffff.at
- Luka Frelih
- Auriea Harvey
- Irational.org
- Karl Heinz Jeron
- Lisa Jevbratt
- Jodi
- Jodi.org
- Yael Kanarek
- Chris King
- Konsum
- Tobias Leingruber
- Les Liens Invisibles
- Olia Lialina
- LIMA
- Jonas Lund
- Frédéric Madre
- Nancy Mauro-Flude
- !Mediengruppe Bitnik
- Moddr
- Mark Napier
- Net condition
- Nettime
- Panke.gallery
- Jacques Perconte
- Rhizome
- RTMark
- Sakrowski
- Alexei Shulgin
- Cornelia Sollfrank
- Thomson & Craighead
- Turbulence
- UBERMORGEN
- Zentrum für Netzkunst
Works
Online exhibitions and databases
- Turbulence.org, a premiere web site for net art. From 1996-2016, Turbulence.org commissioned over 220 original net, web and hybrid art works and hosted over 20 real-time, multi-location performances.
- äda 'web, platform for online artworks, experimental literature, publishing, and exhibitions. Run by Benjamin Weil and collaborators, 1994-1998. äda 'web in Net Art Anthology (2019).
- net-art.org, an online-only exhibition of the early (and continuous) history of Internet art. Initiated 1998 by Andrew Forbes. Interview, 2001. Twitter. FB.
- Rhizome ArtBase, archive of digital art, freely accessible to the public online. Founded 1999. Catalog.
- Net Art Anthology. Presented by Rhizome, 2016-2019. Retelling the history of Net Art from the 1980s through the present day by restaging and contextualizing one key net art project per week. [1]
- New Black Portraitures, browser-based exhibition, 2017. Curated by Aria Dean as part of Rhizome's Net Art Anthology. [2] [3]
- netart-Datenbank, est. 2000, active through c.2005. Team: Nina Kahnwald, Anna Kohler, Tilman Linden, Thomas Noesler, Sakrowski.
- Pixel Plunder©, online exhibition on notions of authorship and copyright, curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak, 2001. [4] [5]
- project.Arnolfini, curated by Geoff Cox, 2010.
- netpioneers.info: contextualizing early net-based art, research project realized at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz, 2007-2009. (archived). Book published.
- Gallery 9, Walker Art Center's online exhibition space. Between 1997 and 2003, under the direction of Steve Dietz, Gallery 9 presented the work of more than 100 artists.
- Net art commissioned by Guggenheim Museum, 1996-c.2002. (archived)
- E.space, online projects commissioned by SFMOMA. Launched 2000. Created by Benjamin Weil with Joseph Rosa. [6] (archived)
- Artport. Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art. Originally launched in 2001, Artport provides access to original art works commissioned specifically for artport by the Whitney; documentation of net art and new media art exhibitions at the Whitney; and new media art in the Museum's collection. Created and curated by Christiane Paul. Made an official part of the Whitney Museum collection in 2015. [7]
- Tate Intermedia Art, contains the archive of Tate's net art projects from 2000-2011. [8]
- BAM/PFA NetArtchive, online exhibition. Presented works by four artists. (archived)
- Net.Specific, an online exhibition space for net art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Launched Oct 2012.
- netart_latino database, a database of Latin-American net artists. Edited by Brian Mackern.
- Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions, an online-only exhibition of the early history of Internet art; produced by students of digital art at the University of Colorado's Art and Art History Department, in conjunction with the Alt-X Online Network, ATLAS and blurr.
- net.artdatabase, documentation of selected internet-based artworks by recording users in front of their screens as they interact with the work.
- netartnet.net, an online-gallery listing and directory. The archive contains current and past exhibitions with dates, links, and press releases.
- Why Not Sneeze, eds. Michael Gibbs and Brigitte van der Sande, 1996-1998.
- Overview of network art projects and events, compiled by Dušan Barok, 2008.
- Digital Canon, 20 works from the Netherlands, 1960-2000, launched 2019. Compiled by LIMA.
- Links to net art, compiled by Jim Andrews (VISPO).
- The Wrong, digital art biennale, online & worldwide, since 2013. Incl. Very Large Works online show, 2019-2020.
- Netarts.org, 1995-2014.
- more, more
- netzspannung.org, 2001-?.
- Internet-related works in Media Art Net.
- Garage Digital, online program for born-digital artworks and research projects created in collaboration with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019-. [9]
- 2020 Do Not Link, group exhibition, Upstream Gallery, 12-28 Jun 2020. Curated by Dirk Paesmans and Bob Bicknell-Knight.
- Sunrise/Sunset, series of Internet art projects commissioned by Whitney Museum, since 2009
Selected recent works
2007 subvertr by Les Liens Invisibles. 2008 fuckflikr by Theo Watson, Jamie Wilkinson, and Greg Leuch; China Channel by Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth and tbx (fffff.at); Pirates of the Amazon by tbx and Timo Klok. 2009 Web 2.0 Suicide Machine by moddr; Seppukoo by Les Liens Invisibles; Give Me My Data by Owen Mundy. 2010 Repetitionr by Les Liens Invisibles; Firesheep by Eric Butler; FaceLeaks by Dušan Barok. 2011 Newstweek by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasilev; Piratebox by David Darts; motivo astratto by &; Love Machine by Julien Deswaef.
Works in museum collections
Artist | b. | Title, Link | Year | Coll. | Acq. | Coll. no. | Coll. URL | Medium | Dept / Type / Tags | Info |
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Douglas Davis | US | The World's First Collaborative Sentence | 1994- | Whitney | 1995 | 95.253 | [10] | Website (HTML) | New Media | [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] |
Jean-Baptiste Michel | US | I WISH I could be exactly what you’re looking for | 2013 | Whitney | 2014 | 2014.96 | [16] | Twitter API, LCD screen, spray painted mat board, and glass | New Media | [17] |
Siebren Versteeg | US | New York Double Hung | 2008 | Whitney | 2017 | 2017.241 | [18] | Digital collage, output from Internet-connected computer program, with two touch screens | New Media | [19] |
Daniela Alina Plewe | DE | Muser's Service | 1994 | ZKM | [20] | Waterbed, electric heating, pillow, red LED clock module, computer (PC Client), operating system (Linux Ubuntu), custom software with internet access, modified keyboard, computer (PC Server), operating system (Linux Ubuntu), custom software with internet access, TFT monitor, text-to-speech converter (Infovox 700), speaker, amplifier, projector | installation, computer-based, Net Art, Computer-based installation | [21] [22] [23] | ||
Walter van der Cruijsen, Jill Scott | NL, AU | Salon Digital | 1995 | ZKM | [24] | Custom-made table, three TFT monitors with speakers, glass pane, turnable ring with infrared keyboard and track ball, computer (PC), operating system (Windows) | computer-based, Net Art, Net-based sculpture | |||
Markus Huemer | AT | The Rules Are No Game | 1997 | ZKM | [25] | Two computers (PC, operating system: Linux, custom software with internet access), video camera, projector, floor plates with screenprint | installation, computer-based, Net Art, Computer-based installation | |||
Cornelia Sollfrank | DE | Net Art Generator | 1999 | ZKM | [26] | interactive net-based installation; computer workstation (table, chair, computer) and wooden box with server, projection screen; technical equipment: computer (server): PC with graphics and two network cards, operating system: Linux, software: custom software with Internet access, computer (workstation): PC, software: Internet browser; other technical devices: panel and electronics of a TFT monitor, projector, color printer (optional) | computer-based, Net-based sculpture | [27] | ||
Shane Cooper | US | Remote Control | 1999 | ZKM | [28] | computer (Silicon Graphics O2, operating system: IRIX, custom software), keyboard, mouse, audio effects unit, computer screen, TV screen, custom-made remote control system, TV cabinet, coffee table, sofa, floor lamp, pedestal | computer-based, installation, video, Net-based installation, Computer-based installation | [29] [30] [31] | ||
David Link | DE | Poetry Machine | 2001 | ZKM | [32] | interactive, net-based installation; room with projection screen, technological equipment: computer: 3 PCs, operating system: Linux, software: Icustom software with Internet access, other devices: modified keyboard on stand, custom electronics, ultrasonic distance sensor, network distributor, 1 plasma monitor, projector, amplifier, 2 passive speakers, mixer | installation, computer-based, Net Art, Net-based installation, Computer-based installation | [33] [34] | ||
Transmute Collective | AU | Intimate Transactions | 2005 | ZKM | [35] | Two supporting structures for one person each (aluminum, steel, plastic), four computers (Power Max G5), operating system (OSX), custom software, four computers (PC), operating system (Windows), custom software, laptop, operating system (Windows), custom software with internet access, two sound cards (MOTU 828 Mk2), two AD/DA converters (Behringer ADA8000), two custom-made electronic units, two MIDI controllers (Midiman 2x2), four body sensors, two video cameras, two RGB mixers, 16 speakers (active), two subwoofers, two projectors, two projection screens, seven TFT monitors, pedestal, monitor, CF card player, speakers (active) | video, computer-based, installation, Sound installation, Video installation, Net-based installation, Computer-based installation | |||
Marc Lee | CH | Breaking the News | 2007 | ZKM | [36] | computer (PC), operating system (Windows XP), custom software with internet access, 3 or 4 projectors, 3 or 4 speakers (active) | installation, computer-based, Net-based installation, Computer-based installation, Video installation | [37] | ||
David Bowen | US | tele-present water | 2011 | ZKM | [38] | Aluminium, wooden sticks, nylon threads, 17 servo motors (Futaba S3004), computer (Macmini, operating system: Mac OSX, software: Max/MSP); wave from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 51003 | installation, computer-based, Kinetic installation, Computer-based installation, Net-based installation | [39] | ||
Mark Amerika | US | Crapshoot | 2013- 2014 | ZKM | [40] | website; languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript | computer-based, Net Art | [41] [42] [43] | ||
Martine Neddam | NL | My DesktopLife | 2014 | ZKM | [44] | net-based artwork; website, languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python | computer-based, Net Art | [45] | ||
Rafaël Rozendaal | NL | Neo Geo City | 2014 | ZKM | [46] | website, languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python | computer-based, Net Art | [47] [48] | ||
Alex Wenger, Max-Gerd Retzlaff | DE | Spuren | 2015 | ZKM | [49] | 1 Computer, 2 Microcontroller, Webserver, 1 Monitor, Software, 1 Sockel | computer-based, Net-based installation | [50] | ||
Leena Krohn | FI | Sphinx or Robot | 1997 | Kiasma | 1997 | N-1997-86 | [51] | Media Art, Online Art | ||
Juha van Ingen | FI | Web-Safe | 1999- 2000 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-32 | [52] | Text, Silent | Media Art, Online Art | [53] [54] [55] |
Jarkko Räsänen | FI | Ordered Dance | 2016 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-44 | [56] | Media Art, Online Art | [57] | |
Tuomo Rainio | FI | Untitled (Gravitational waves) | 2016 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-45 | [58] | Text | Media Art, Online Art | [59] |
Pink Twins | FI | Infinity | 2016 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-48 | [60] | Media Art, Online Art | [61] | |
Angelo Plessas | GR | Homo Cybersphericus | 2017 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-50 | [62] | Text, website | Media Art, Online Art | [63] |
Jenna Sutela | FI | Gut-Machine Poetry | 2017 | Kiasma | 2016 | N-2016-796 | [64] | Text, website | Media Art, Online Art | [65] |
Reija Meriläinen | FI | Survivor | 2017 | Kiasma | 2017 | N-2017-205 | [66] | Media Art | [67] | |
Robertas Narkus | LT | Prospect Revenge | 2019 | Kiasma | 2019 | N-2019-63 | [68] | [69] | ||
John F. Simon Jr. | US | Unfolding Object | 2002 | Guggenheim | 2002 | 2002.16 | [70] | Interactive networked code (Java applet with server database and servlets) | Internet Art | [71] [72] |
Mark Napier | US | net.flag | 2002 | Guggenheim | 2002 | 2002.17 | [73] | Interactive networked code (Java applet with server database) | Internet Art | [74] [75] |
Shu Lea Cheang | TW | Brandon | 1998- 1999 | Guggenheim | 2005 | 2005.44 | [76] | Interactive networked code (html, Java, Javascript and server database) | Internet Art | [77] [78] |
Lynn Hershman Leeson | US | Agent Ruby | 1999- 2002 | SFMOMA | 2008 | 2008.230 | [79] | web project | digital media | [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] |
Julia Scher | US | Predictive Engineering2 | 1998 | SFMOMA | 2008 | 2008.231 | [87] | web project | digital media | [88] |
Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher, Miranda July, Yuri Ono | US | Learning to Love You More | 2002- 2009 | SFMOMA | 2010 | 2010.45 | [89] | web project (www.learningtoloveyoumore.com) and archive | digital media | |
Sandra Gamarra | PE | LiMac Museum Shop | 2005 | Tate | 2009 | T15217 | [90] | Software, networked, internet, colour, laptop; plywood, paint, oil paintings on canvas, coat hangers, t-shirts, mugs, canvas bags, wooden yo-yos, mouse mats, pin badges, printed papers and other materials | ||
Marc Lee | CH | TV Bot 2.0 | 2010 | HEK | 2012 | S0001 | [91] | 16:9 flat screen, speaker boxes, computer, Internet browser with flash plug-in, Internet connection, router, cable | Internet Artwork | [92] [93] [94] |
Christoph Wachter, Mathias Jud | CH | New Nations | 2009- 2011 | HEK | 2012 | S0003 | [95] | Router: TL-WR841ND (with handmade aluminum box), operating system OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment 12.09, wooden box, folded leaflet, book | Internet Community Project | |
UBERMORGEN | AT | Sound of Ebay | 2008/ 2009 | HEK | 2012 | S0004 | [96] | EBay user data; computer with Internet connection; possibly a screen with a projector | Internet Artwork | |
Jodi | NL, BE | div. (property) | 2013 | HEK | 2013 | S0013 | [97] | Source code: HTML, CSS, Javascript; computer, other output devices (projector, screen) | Internet Artwork | |
Beat Brogle, Philippe Zimmermann | CH | onewordmovie | 2003/ 2018 | HEK | 2016 | S0014 | [98] | Program code, source code (HTML 5), database, emulator | Internet Artwork | |
Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg | CH | filter: four letter words | 1997- 1998 | HEK | 2016 | S0015 | [99] | For the original version: 726 HTML files and 726 GIF files; for the 2016 version: 726 HTML files, 726 GIF files and 1 CSS file Screen: 640 x 480 px – 1920 x 1080 px; desktop computer, e.g., Netscape 2.0 / Windows 98; HTML 5 or CCS 3 browser, e.g., Firefox 47.0 / Windows XP | Internet Artwork | |
Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg | CH | filter: mille miglia | 1997- 1998 | HEK | 2016 | S0016 | [100] | For the original version: 5 HTML files; for the 2008 version: 5 HTML files; for the 2016 version: 2 HTML files (1 x iframe, 1 x openWindow): Screen: 780 x 280 px; desktop computer, e.g., Netscape 4 / Windows 98; HTML 5 or CCS 3 browser, e.g., Firefox 47.0 / Windows XP | Internet Artwork | |
Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg | CH | filter: mixed double | 1997- 1998 | HEK | 2016 | S0017 | [101] | For the original version: 726 HTML files and 726 GIF files; for the 2016 version: 726 HTML files, 726 GIF files and 1 CSS file Screen: 640 x 480 px – 1920 x 1080 px; desktop computer, e.g., Netscape 2.0 / Windows 98; HTML 5 or CCS 3 browser, e.g., Firefox 47.0 / Windows XP | Internet Artwork | |
Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg | CH | travelogue | 2005 | HEK | 2017 | S0038 | [102] | Web game: Flash-File and HTML pages for Online and Offline use; film of the game: 736 x 506 px, 33’, MP4, AV | Web Game | [103] |
Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg | CH | Hotel Vue des Alpes | 2000- | HEK | 2017 | S0044 | [104] | Pentium III, 3-D programs, website with room-reservation system, HTML, PHP, compatible with flash and SQL, vda player | Internet Artwork | |
Maia Gusberti, Michael Aschauer, Nik Thoenen, Sepp Deinhofer | CH | LOGICALAND V0.1 | 2002 | HEK | 2016 | S0018 | [105] | Web application with Java applet (and HTML/CSS) as front end, and a PHP/MySQL as backend. Current version: 0.11. Used – last tested software: PHP Version 4.3.6, MYSQL 3.23.39 | Web Game | |
!Mediengruppe Bitnik | CH | Download Finished | 2006 | HEK | 2016 | S0020 | [106] | 3 films in PAL MPEG-2, 720 x 576 px format. Website consists of 1420 static pages and 1409 films in HTML5. Web server (Nginx, Apache) with PHP5 enabled; server space: ca. 140 GB | Web Archive, Digital Video | |
knowbotic research | DE, CH | minds of concern (New York version) | 2002 | HEK | 2016 | S0024 | [107] | Server: apache, mysql, python script, python cgi scripts; Client: HTMIL, flash (gnash) plugin; unitedwehack.ath.cx | Internet Artwork, Interactive Installation | |
knowbotic research | DE, CH | macghillie_just a void | 2008- 2012 | HEK | 2016 | S0025 | [108] | Wordpress Blog, Camouflage-Anzug | Blog, Urban Intervention | |
Birgit Kempker | DE, CH | Sphinx | 2004- | HEK | 2017 | S0035 | [109] | Internet Artwork | [110] | |
Marc Lee | CH | TV Bot 1.0 | 2004/ 2005 | HEK | 2017 | S0036 | [111] | Original (2004): Data stream from the Internet, 16:9 flat screen, speakers, computer, Internet browser with flash plugin, Internet connection including router, cable. Videos (2005): flash, MP4 | Internet Artwork | [112] [113] [114] [115] |
John F. Simon, Jr. | US | Every Icon | 1997 | HEK | 2017 | S0037 | [116] | Software, Java Applet | Internet Artwork | [117] |
LAN | CH | TraceNoizer – Disinformation On Demand | 2001 | HEK | 2017 | S0047 | [118] | Internet Artwork | ||
Gilles Aubry, Stéphane Montavon | DE, CH | Cairo Talking Heads | 2006/ 2017 | HEK | 2017 | S0061 | [119] | software, website, audio | Blog, Internet Artwork | |
Martine Neddam | NL | Mouchette | 1996- | Stedelijk & MOTI Breda | 2016 | [120] | [121] [122] [123] [124] [125] [126] |
See also the works commissioned by Tate (2000-2011), SFMOMA (2000-) and Whitney (2001-), and the works in Rhizome ArtBase.
Catalogues
- Net_condition: Art and Global Media, eds. Timothy Druckrey and Peter Weibel, MIT Press, 2000, 398 pp. Exh. held at ZKM Karlsruhe, 23 Sep 1999-27 Feb 2000. [127]
- Net_Condition. Kunst / Politik im Online-Universum, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 1999, 42 pp. Exh. brochure. [128] (German)
- Connessioni leggendarie: net.art 1995-2005, ed. Luca Lampo, Milan: ready-made, 2005, 117 pp. [129] (Italian)
- Net art 0.1: desmontajes, Badajoz: Consejería de Cultura y Turismo/Junta de Extremadura, 2009, 154 pp. Exh. held at MEIAC, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, 21 Nov-28 Feb 2009. (Spanish)/(English)
- Powered by Ljudmila, eds. Alenka Gregorič and Keiko Suzuki, Ljubljana: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, 2011, 96 pp. [130] [131] [132] (Slovenian)/(English)
- Virtual Normality. Der weibliche Blick im Zeitalter des Internets, ed. Alfred Weidinger, VfmK, 2018, 208 pp. [133] (German)/(English)
- Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, ed. Eva Respini, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, 316 pp. Exh. held at ICA Boston, 7 Feb-20 May 2018. Review: Federici (CAA).
- The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology, eds. Michael Connor, Aria Dean, and Dragan Espenschied, forew. Zachary Kaplan, intro. Michael Connor, New York: Rhizome, 2019, 444 pp. Essays by manuel arturo abreu, Josephine Bosma, Megan Driscoll, Ceci Moss, Lila Pagola, Paul Soulellis, Elvia Wilk. TOC. [134] [135]. Reviews: Quaranta (Camera Austria), Weisburg (Brooklyn Rail).
Events
- Secret Net.Art Conf, Backspace, London, 29 Jan 1997. Organised by Heath Bunting.
- Hybrid Workspace, part of documenta X exhibition, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 21 Jun-28 Sep 1997.
- Net_condition: Art and Global Media exhibition, ZKM Karlsruhe, 23 Sep 1999-27 Feb 2000. Archived exhibition website.
- Envy: Can the Center Hold? (net.art per se), panel as part of Sins of Change: Media Arts in Transition, Again symposium, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 8 Apr 2000.
- Art and Money Online, exhibition, Tate Modern, London, 6 Mar-3 Jun 2001. Curated by Julian Stallabrass.
- Art.Bit Collection, exhibition and symposia, InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, 21 Jun-11 Aug 2002. Curated by Masaki Fujihata and Kouichirou Eto. [136]
- Connessioni Leggendarie: Net.Art 1995-2005, exhibition, Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova, Milan, 20 Oct-10 Nov 2005. Curated by Domenico Quaranta. Interview with curator (Digicult).
- Tele-Internet, Ars Electronica, Linz, 2010. Curated by Aram Bartholl.
- WJ-Spots / Mal au Pixel Festival, conference on the history and the future of the internet, Paris, Jun 2011.
- Internet Art Future: Reality in Post Internet Era, exhibition and symposium, InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, 28 Jan-18 Mar 2012. [137] [138]
- ArtOnYourScreen, online exhibition platform, ZKM, 14 May 2014-31 Dec 2016. [139]
- net.art Painters and Poets, exhibition, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Jun-Aug 2014. Curated by Vuk Ćosić and Alenka Gregorić.
- Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet, exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 29 Jan-15 May 2016. Curated by Omar Kholeif. Reviews: Fuller (Mute), Meixnerová (Iluminace, CZ).
- ARS17 Hello World! Taide internetin jälkeen / Art After the Internet, exhibition, Kiasma, Helsinki, 31 Mar 2017-14 Jan 2018. [140] [141]
- Virtual Normality: Female Net Artists 2.0, exhibition, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 12 Jan-8 Apr 2018. Curated by Sabrina Steinek and Anika Meier. Review: Weier (Springerin).
- Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today exhibition, ICA Boston, 7 Feb-20 May 2018. Curated by Eva Respini and Jeffrey De Blois.
- Berlin, Zentrum der Netzkunst - damals und heute, exhibition, panke.gallery, Berlin, 4 Oct-23 Nov 2018. Curated by Robert Sakrowski and Tabea Rossol.
- The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics, exhibition, New Museum, New York, 22 Jan-26 May 2019. Based on Rhizome's Net Art Anthology programme. Curated by Michael Connor with Aria Dean. [142]. Review: Huang (Ocula).
Literature
Books
- Tilman Baumgärtel, net.art. Materialien zur Netzkunst, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 1999, 179 pp. [143] (German)
- Tīkla māksla, trans. Ilva Skulte, Riga: Petergailis, 2001, 168 pp. (Latvian)
- Net.art: võrgukunsti materjalid, trans. Medea Jerser, Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakad, 2006, 367 pp. (Estonian)
- Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Verena Kuni (eds.), netz.kunst. Jahrbuch des Institutes für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg '98/'99, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 1999, 272 pp. [144] (German)
- Margarete Jahrmann, OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ (eds.), Art_Server: Stargate to Netculture: Texts and Positions on Netculture and Netart in O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz: O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, 2000, 75 pp. [145] (German)/(English)
- Tilman Baumgärtel, net.art 2.0. Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials on Art on the Internet, trans. David Hudson, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2001, 263 pp. Author. (German)/(English)
- Julian Stallabrass, Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, London: Tate Publishing, 2003, 168 pp. Reviews: Stimson (NLR), Gere (Art Book).
- Marco Deseriis, Giuseppe Marano, Net.art. L'arte della connessione, Milan: ShaKe, 2003, 218 pp. [146] (Italian)
- Domenico Quaranta, Net art 1994-1998. La vicenda di Ada'web, Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2004, 192 pp. [147] [148] (Italian)
- Rachel Greene, Internet Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 224 pp. [149]
- Internet Art, n.d. (Italian)
- Joanne Richardson (ed.), An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, New York: Autonomedia, 2005.
- Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark (eds.), At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, MIT Press, 2005, xiv+486 pp.
- Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking. La rete come arte, pref. Derrick de Kerckhove, Milan: Costa & Nolan, 2006, 333 pp. (Italian)
- Networking: The Net as Artwork, Aarhus: Aarhus University, 2008, 336 pp.
- Tom Corby (ed.), Network Art: Practices and Positions, London: Routledge, 2006, xiv+206 pp. Introduction. [150]. Review: Dieter (Animation).
- Inclusiva-net, 3 vols., Madrid: Medialab Prado, 2007-2009. Proceedings. (English)/(Spanish)
- Artnode, Jacob Lillemose, Nikolaj Recke (eds.), Vi elsker din computer. En antologi om netkunst, trans. Andreas Brøgger, Copenhagen: Artnode & The Royal Art Academy Copenhagen, 2008, 429 pp. An anthology of writings on net art. TOC. [151] [152] (Danish)
- Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger (eds.), Net Pioneers 1.0: Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art, Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press, 2010, 240 pp.
- Josephine Bosma, Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, and Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011, 270 pp. Introduction, TOC, [153]. Review: Kluitenberg (Open!), Ciociola (Neural), Cippitelli (Digicult).
- Anne Laforet, Le net art au musée. Stratégies de conservation des œuvres en ligne, Paris: Questions théoriques, 2011, 180 pp. Excerpt. Based on 2009 dissertation. [154] [155] (French)
- Markus Schwander, Reinhard Storz (eds.), Owning Online Art: Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks, Basel: FHNW, 2010.
- Rasa Smite, Creative Networks: In the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2012. First published in Latvian, 2011.
- xtine burrough (ed.), Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, Routledge, 2012, xx+242 pp.
- Juan Martín Prada, Prácticas artísticas e internet en la época de las redes sociales, Madrid: Akal, 2012, 248 pp; 2nd ed., 2015, 271 pp. (Spanish)
- Phoebe Adler, Leanne Hayman, Arrate Hidalgo, Dana Saey, Phoebe Stubbs, Nick Warner (eds.), Art and the Internet, London: Black Dog, 2013, 240 pp. TOC. [156]
- Marina Zerbarini, et al., Radiografía del Net Art latino: vitalidad creativa en riesgo de extinción, Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2014. [157] [158] [159] (Spanish)
- Omar Kholeif (ed.), You Are Here: Art After the Internet, Manchester: Cornerhouse Books, and London: SPACE, 2014, 256 pp. Publisher, Co-publisher. Reviews: Swift (AQNB), Sumpter (ArtReview), Mutlu (J Curatorial Studies).
- Melanie Bühler (ed.), No Internet, No Art: A Lunch Bytes Anthology, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2015, 351+[63] pp; 2nd ed., 2018. Publisher, Editor. [160]. Reviews: Kay (AQNB), Roestenburg (INC).
- Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter (eds.), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press, 2015, 528 pp. Anthology. Publisher. Review: Galati (Leonardo).
- Marie Meixnerová (ed.), #mm net art, Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz (PAF Edition), 2015, 232 pp. Anthology. Excerpts. Publisher. Facebook. (Czech)
- #mm Net Art: Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation, Brescia: Link Editions, and Olomouc: PAF, 2019, 218 pp. [161]
- Annet Dekker, Collecting and Conserving Net Art: Moving beyond Conventional Methods, New York: Routledge, 2018, x+192 pp.
- Ceci Moss, Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 160 pp. [162]
Journal issues
- kritische berichte 26(1): "Netzkunst", eds. Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann, Annette Dorgerloh, Brigitte Schoch-Joswig, and Michael Scholz-Hänsel, 1998. TOC, [163]. (German)
- AI & Society 14(1): "Database Aesthetics: Issues of Organization and Category in Online Art", ed. Victoria Vesna, 2000.
- terminal 101: "Net art, technologie ou création?", Paris: Harmattan, May 2008, 176 pp. [164] (French)
- WJ-SPOTS 1: 15 ans de création artistique sur internet / 15 years of web creation, ed. Anne Roquigny, 2011, 132 pp. [165] (French)/(English)
- WJ-SPOTS 2: Les artistes s’emparent du réseau / Artists take over the network, ed. Anne Roquigny, 2011, 132 pp. [166] (French)/(English)
- frieze d/e 14: "Missing Links: '90s Berlin Net Art", May 2014. Focuses on the 1990s Net art scene in Berlin. [167] [168] (German)/(English)
- Springerin 1: "Kritische Netzpraxis", Vienna, Jan 2015. Editorial & TOC. Roundtable. Report from launch debate. (German)
Book chapters, articles, theses, talks, discussions
- Joachim Blank, "Netart", 1996.
- "Net art", section in The Beauty and the East (ZKP4), eds. Pit Schultz, Diana McCarty, Geert Lovink, and Vuk Cosic, Ljubljana, May 1997.
- Tilman Baumgärtel, "Netzkunst bei der Dia Art Foundation", Telepolis, 15 May 1997. (German)
- Tilman Baumgärtel, "Immaterialien. Aus der Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Netzkunst", Telepolis 3, Sep 1997, pp 135-151. (German)
- Steve Dietz, "Curating (on) the Web", Museums and the Web, Mar 1998.
- Benjamin Weil, "Untitled (ÄDA’WEB): A Brief History of äda'web", Minneapolis, MN: Gallery 9/Walker Art Center, 1998.
- Robert Atkins, "What is äda'web?", Minneapolis, MN: Gallery 9/Walker Art Center, Sep 1998.
- Andrea Scott, "äda through the Looking Glass", Minneapolis, MN: Gallery 9/Walker Art Center, Sep 1998.
- Vivian Selbo, "ah, ‘da Process” ... Questions? Some Answers ...", Minneapolis, MN: Gallery 9/Walker Art Center, Sep 1998.
- Tilman Baumgärtel, "Das imaginäre Museum. Zu einigen Motiven der Netzkunst", Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Oct 1998, 47 pp, PDF. Discussion paper. (German)
- "Art", section in Read Me! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, pp 211-273.
- Mindaugas Gapsevicius, "Vanishing Net Art: Introduction to Net Art Restoration", 1999.
- Steve Dietz, "Why Have There Been No Great Net Artists?", 1999.
- Natalie Bookchin, "A Story of Net Art", 2000. Timeline, 1994-2000.
- Matthew Fuller, "Art meet Net, Net meet Art", Tate Online, London, 2000.
- Josephine Berry, "Human, all too Posthuman? Net Art and Its Critics", Tate Online, London, 2000.
- Rachel Greene, "Web Work: A History of Internet Art", Artforum, May 2000, pp 162-167 & 190. [169] [170]
- Josephine Berry, The Thematics of Site-Specific Art on the Net, University of Manchester, 2001, 304 pp. Dissertation.
- Verena Kuni, "'Was ist ein Netzkünstler?' Nutzen und Nachteil der Legende vom Künstler im Zeitalter ihrer techno-logischen Reproduzierbarkeit", in Borderline. Strategien und Taktiken für Kunst und soziale Praxis, ed. BBK Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2002, pp 87-108. [171] (German)
- Julian Stallabrass, "The Aesthetics of Net.Art", Qui Parle 14:1, Fall/Winter 2003, pp 49-72. A plenary lecture given to the American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Oct 2003 (talk).
- Christine Paul, "Internet Art and Nomadic Networks", in Paul, Digital Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, pp 111-124; repr., upd., as "Internet Art and Networked Art", in Paul, Digital Art, 3rd ed., 2015.
- Steve Dietz, "äda’web", in Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, eds. Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
- Inge Hinterwaldner, "When Windows Attack... Doors Won't Help. Zur Hinterfragung von Bildlichkeit und Interaktivität in der Netzkunst", in Kulturen des Bildes, eds. Birgit Mersmann and Martin Schulz, Munich: Fink, 2006, pp 355-374. (German)
- Karen Verschooren, "Internet art, net art, and networked art in relation: Interview with Jon Ippolito", 26 Oct 2006.
- Karen A. Verschooren, .art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 2007, 202 pp. Master thesis.
- Steve Dietz, "Curating Net Art", in New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, University of California Press, 2008. [172]
- "Net Art", in Wolf Lieser, Digital Art, Potsdam: Ullmann, 2009; repr. as The World of Digital Art, Potsdam: Ullmann, 2010.
- Anne Laforet, La conservation du net art au musée. Les stratégies à l’œuvre, Avignon: University of Avignon, 2009. Published as book in 2011. (French)
- Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Keeping Ephemerality Alive: Preserving the Dynamic Materiality of Net Art, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2010. Master's thesis. [173]
- Cassandra Meers, Assembling Networked Art: A Study of the US, UK and Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2010, 264 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Mary Flanagan, "Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges", in Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, eds. Margot Lovejoy, Victoria Vesna, and Christiane Paul, Intellect, 2011, pp 89-100.
- Thomas Dreher, "VI.3 Netzkunst im Web", in Dreher, Geschichte der Computerkunst, Munich, 2011-2012. (German)
- "VI.3 Net Art in the Web", in Dreher, History of Computer Art, Munich, 2011-2012.
- Jennifer Chan, "From Browser to Gallery (and Back): The Commodification of Net Art 1990-2010", 2012.
- Michael Connor, "What's Postinternet Got to Do with Net Art", Rhizome, 1 Nov 2013.
- Kris Paulsen, "Ill Communication: Anxiety and Identity in 1990s Net Art", in Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, University of California Press & Montclair Museum of Art, 2014, pp 65-72.
- Antoinette Dekker, Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER: A study of networks, processes and ambiguity in net art and the need for an expanded practice of conservation, London: Goldsmiths University, 2014. PhD dissertation. Published as a book in 2018.
- Dragan Espenschied, "Big Data, Little Narration", Rhizome, 22 Oct 2014.
- Sarah Cook, Marialaura Ghidini, "Internet Art (Net Art)", in Oxford Art Online, 22 Sep 2015. [174]
- Konrad Becker, Josephine Berry Slater, Felix Stalder, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, "Einsatz der Vernetzung. Ein Roundtable zu 20 Jahren Netzkultur", trans. Thomas Raab, Springerin 1: "Kritische Netzpraxis", 2015; reposted on Eurozine, 11 Feb 2015. (German)
- "Mission Interconnectedness: A Roundtable on 20 Years of Net Culture", Springerin online, 2015; reposted on Eurozine, 17 Mar 2015, PDF.
- Marialaura Ghidini, Curating Web-based Art Exhibitions: Mapping their Migration and Integration with Offline Formats of Production, University of Sunderland, 2015, 294 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Karin De Wild, et al., "Methods for studying the (after)lives of Internet art" (cont.), list discussion, CRUMB, 14 Nov-31 Dec 2016. Introduction.
- Megan Driscoll, "Color Coded: Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Black.Net.Art Actions and the Language of Computer Networks", The Black Scholar 47(3): "Black Code", 2017, pp 56-67.
- Emmanuel Guez, Morgane Stricot, Lionel Broye, Stéphane Bizet, "The Afterlives of Network-Based Artworks", Journal of the Institute of Conservation 40:2, 2017, pp 105-120.
- Gloria Sutton, Zachary Kaplan, "A Performance of Code: Rhizome and the Rise of Internet Art", VoCA Journal, 30 June 2017. Interview.
- Lia Carreira, Experimental Curating in Times of the Perpetual Beta: Strategies and Platforms for Online-based Art, Krems: Danube University Krems, 2017, 138 pp. Master thesis.
- Aino Nurmesjärvi, "Beyond Human Understanding: Creating New Language and Visuals on the Web. Commissioned Online Artworks by Jenna Sutela and Tuomo Rainio", FNG Research 1, Jan 2018.
- Karin De Wild, Internet Art and Agency: The Social Lives of Online Artworks, Dundee: University of Dundee, 2018, xvi+206 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Andreas Gajdošík, "Konec průzkumu. Internetové umění v přechodu ke společnosti", Artalk.cz, Prague, 19 Dec 2018. (Czech)
- Marialaura Ghidini, "Curating on the Web: The Evolution of Platforms as Spaces for Producing and Disseminating Web-Based Art", Arts 8:3. PDF.
- Olivia Brum, The Lives of Internet Artworks in Institutions: How to Begin to Construct a Long-term Conservation Strategy, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2019, 100 pp. Master's thesis.
- Aude Launay, "The Polyphonic History of Net Art, An Eternal Network?", Zerodeux 89, 2019.
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