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• “Internet art” has been around as long as long as the Internet itself. A renegade thing, it’s always on the edge of new technology, with its medium functioning as its own platform. GIFs, CAPTCHA codes, found imagery, experimental social networks — the manifestations and run-off of our daily online experience is all ripe fodder for the net artist.

• The term "net.art" is also used as a synonym for net art or Internet art and covers a much wider range of artistic practices. In this wider definition, net.art means art that uses the Internet as its medium and that cannot be experienced in any other way. Often net.art has the Internet as (part of) its subject matter but this is certainly not required.

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• Web 2.0 = the era of sharing and collaboration

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL7R9CjkxjY&noredirect=1Thursday, November 14, 13

jodi

• Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans . Their background is in photography and video art; since the mid-1990s they started to create original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also turned to software and artistic computer game modification.

• http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org - the website that caused Jodi's uproar in popularity with contemporary art.

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Characteristics

• Have access to them on a website

• Critique of Musuems and Galleries

• Free + Open 24/7

• Against the perfect commercial looking aesthetic

• Interactive + Participatory

• Growing through and with the hacker culture (4chan)

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• http://www.teleportacia.org/war/wara.htm

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Net Art + Post-InternetMark Tribe (b. 1966) to a question about postinternet art for an interview that was published in Art in America in September:

Internet art was a movement that arose in 1994 and waned in the early 2000s. Post-Internet artists stand on the shoulders of Net art giants like Olia Lialina, Vuk Cosic, and JODI, not in order to lift themselves higher into the thin atmosphere of pure online presence but rather to crush the past and reassemble the fragments in strange on/offline hybrid forms.

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• to both celebrate and critique the internet

• internet art can no longer be distinguished as strictly computer/internet based, but rather, can be identified as any type of art that is in some way influenced by the internet and digital media.’

• art influenced by the internet.

• "Artists after the Internet thus take on a role more closely aligned to that of the interpreter, transcriber, narrator, curator, architect."

• their artistic and philosophical practice so deeply rooted in our common Internet experience...

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Tumblr Art?

• http://thejogging.tumblr.com/

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URL as creative form

http://www.johannes-p-osterhoff.com/agatha/makes_stupid_things.html

http://www.tema.ru/agatha/has_no_idea.html

http://www.irational.org/agatha/wants_to_teleport.html

http://www.tobi-x.com/agatha/teleports_and_teleports.html

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Aesthetic + New Aesthetic

• They present us with constellations of uncannily decisive moments, images made perfect by their imperfections, images that add up to portraits of the web, diaristic photo essays on the part of the surfer, and images that certainly add up to something greater than the sum of their parts.Taken out of circulation and repurposed, they are ascribed with new value

• the blending of digital collage with digital painting in 2D prints, videos, or sculptural objects, and the appropriation or adoption of glossy commercial aesthetics, images, and products.

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So what does “post-internet” really mean?

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• I felt what I was making was ‘art after the internet.’ Pressed for an explanation, at the panel, I said that both my online and offline work was after the internet in the sense that ‘after’ can mean both ‘in the style of ’ and ‘following.’ For illustration, I referred to the concept of postmodernity coming not at the end of modernity, but after (and with a critical awareness of) modernity.

• postinternet situation as one in which ‘the internet is less a novelty and more a banality,’ a presence that is now a given; a generally less phenom- enal phenomenon.

• a result of the contemporary moment: inherently informed by ubiquitous authorship, the development of attention as currency, the collapse of physical space in networked culture, and the infinite reproducibility and mutability of digital materials.’

• a critical awareness

• conspicuous consumption

• during, during, during, during.

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Postinternet stances assume that the creation, distribution, and reception of the work of art have all been reconfigured by network technologies. Perhaps unfortunately, postinternet art has come to be associated with certain techniques and styles more than any particular critical position.

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