Net art

Artists

• 0100101110101101.org
• Annie Abrahams
• Mark America
• 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
• Yael Kanarek
• Chris King
• Tobias Leingruber
• Les Liens Invisibles
• Olia Lialina
• LIMA
• Jonas Lund
• Frédéric Madre
• Nancy Mauro-Flude
• !Mediengruppe Bitnik
• Moddr
• Mark Napier
• Nettime
• Panke.gallery
• Jacques Perconte
• Rhizome
• RTMark
• Robert Sakrowski
• Alexei Shulgin
• Cornelia Sollfrank
• Thomson & Craighead
• Turbulence
• Ubermorgen
• Zentrum für Netzkunst

Works

Online exhibitions and databases

• net-art.org, online-only exhibition of the early (and continuous) history of Internet art.
• 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.
• 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. in Linz (2007–2009).
• 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 2002, 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.
• 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 Art Anthology. Presented by Rhizome, 2016-2018. Retelling the history of Net Art from the 1980s through the present day by restaging and contextualizing one key net art project per week.

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.

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• net.art Painters and Poets, exhibition, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Jun-Aug 2014. Curated by Vuk Ćosić and Alenka Gregorić.
• 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.

Resources, documentation

• http://net.artdatabase.org/
• http://netartnet.net/
• 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.

Publications

Books

• Tilman Baumgärtel, net.art. Materialien zur Netzkunst, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 1999, 179 pp. [1] (German)
• Tilman Baumgärtel, net.art 2.0. Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials on art on the internet, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2001, 263 pp. (German)/(English)
• Julian Stallabrass, Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, London: Tate Publishing, 2003, 168 pp. Review: Stimson (NLR).
• Marco Deseriis, Giuseppe Marano, Net.art. L'arte della connessione, Milan: ShaKe, 2003, 218 pp. [2] (Italian)
• Rachel Greene, Internet Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 224 pp. [3]
  • Internet Art, n.d. (Italian)
• Joanne Richardson (ed.), An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, New York: Autonomedia, 2005.
• 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.
• Inclusiva-net, 3 vols., Madrid: Medialab Prado, 2007-2009. (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. [4] [5] (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, 2011, 272 pp. Introduction. [6]
• Markus Schwander, Reinhard Storz (eds.), Owning Online Art: Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks, Basel: FHNW, 2010.
• Anne Roquigny (ed.), WJ-SPOTS 1: 15 ans de création artistique sur internet / 15 years of web creation, 2011, 132 pp. [7] (French)/(English)
• Anne Roquigny (ed.), WJ-SPOTS 2: Les artistes s’emparent du réseau / Artists take over the network, 2011, 132 pp. [8] (French)/(English)
• 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)
• Art and the Internet, ed. Phoebe Adler, et al., London: Black Dog, 2013, 240 pp. [9]
• Marie Meixnerová (ed.), #mm net art, Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz (PAF Edition), 2015. Anthology. [10] (Czech)
• Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter (eds.), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press, 2015, 528 pp. Anthology. [11]
• Annet Dekker, Collecting and Conserving Net Art: Moving beyond Conventional Methods, New York: Routledge, 2018, x+192 pp.

Book chapters, articles, talks, discussions

• Joachim Blank, "Netart", 1996.
• "Art", section in Read Me! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, pp 211-273.
• Rachel Greene, "Web Work: A History of Internet Art", Artforum, May 2000, pp 162-167 & 190. [12] [13]
• Julian Stallabrass, "Aesthetics of Net.Art", Oct 2003; repr. in Qui Parle 14:1 (Fall/Winter 2003). A plenary lecture given to the American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Oct 2003.
• Christine Paul, "Internet Art and Nomadic Networks", in Paul, Digital Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, pp 111-124.
• Jennifer Chan, "From Browser to Gallery (and Back): The Commodification of Net Art 1990-2011", 2011.
• Thomas Dreher, "VI.3 Netzkunst im Web", in Dreher, Geschichte der Computerkunst, Munich, 2011-12. (German)
  • "VI.3 Net Art in the Web", in Dreher, History of Computer Art, Munich, 2011-12.
• "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.
• Sarah Cook, Marialaura Ghidini, "Internet art (net art)", Oxford Art Online, 2015.
• "Mission Interconnectedness: A Roundtable on 20 Years of Net Culture", with Konrad Becker, Josephine Berry Slater, Felix Stalder, and Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Mar 2015.
• Karin De Wild, et al., "Methods for studying the (after)lives of Internet art" (cont.), list discussion, CRUMB, 14 Nov-31 Dec 2016. [14]
• 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.

More

• Publications on net art at Monoskop Log