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. "An exhibition that invites innovative and independent online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency inside the space of a gallery—attempting to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture are rapidly evolving in an online context. In particular the exhibition aims to render the labor of these online practices transparent, providing 'real life' access to these cultural producers, and overall inspiring public dialogue around their practices."

• 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.

• Surfing Club, Plug.in, Basel, 26 Mar-30 May 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.

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

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]