Art
The New Museum Hits “Save” on Net Art
The Art Happens Here favors a less technical definition of net art, as material based in or for internet cultures.
Olia Lialina
Art
Tracing a Lineage of Tech-Minded Women Artists
It's hard now to go more than a couple months without stumbling across another exhibition showing "artists [who] question the boundary between art and technology." It's enough to make you never give another crap about the boundary between art and technology. But I'm not sure the artists involved in
Books
Whither Art? David Joselit's Digital Art Problem
Is it still possible to imagine a book purporting to be about the circulation of images and art within the saturated global network that never mentions the existence of net art and digital art?
Opinion
Sometimes a GIF Is All You Need
Today and yesterday were glorious days in New York: August had come, the sun was shining, the weather was just right. They were the type of days that make you want to frolic, or skip or swing. And so it happened, when I clicked on a link in a tweet by pioneering net artist and critic Olia Lialina, t
Opinion
An Introduction to the Early Web Aesthetics of Geocities
You might know Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as internet artists, or more specifically, as internet archaeologists. The duo have made a practice of plumbing the depths of internet culture, dusting off old memes and spelunking in old corners of the web. The obscure nature of their work makes th