Net art

Artists

• 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
• Yael Kanarek
• Chris King
• 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

• net-art.org, online-only exhibition of the early (and continuous) history of Internet art.
• 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.

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

• 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, June 2011.
• net.art Painters and Poets, exhibition curated by Vuk Ćosić and Alenka Gregorić at the City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Jun-Aug 2014.
• Net Art Anthology, Rhizome.org, Oct 2016-2018.

Resources, documentation

• http://net.artdatabase.org/
• http://netartnet.net/
• 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)
• 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. [4]
• 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. [5] (French)/(English)
• Anne Roquigny (ed.), WJ-SPOTS 2: Les artistes s’emparent du réseau / Artists take over the network, 2011, 132 pp. [6] (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.
• 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. [7]
• Marie Meixnerová (ed.), #mm net art, Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz (PAF Edition), 2015. Anthology. [8] (Czech)
• Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter (eds.), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press, 2015, 528 pp. Anthology. [9]

Book chapters, articles, talks

• 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.
• 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.
• Sarah Cook, Marialaura Ghidini, "Internet art (net art)", Oxford Art Online, 2015.

More

• Publications on net art at Monoskop Log