Post-Internet Explained

Post-Internet is a 21st-century art movement involving works that are derived from the Internet or its effects on aesthetics, culture and society.[1]

Definition

Post-Internet is a loosely-defined term that was coined by artist/curator Marisa Olson in an attempt to describe her practice.[2] It emerged from mid-2000s discussions about Internet art by Gene McHugh (author of a blog titled "Post-Internet"), and Artie Vierkant (artist, and creator of Image Object sculpture series).[3] The movement itself grew out of Internet Art (or Net Art).[3] According to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, rather than referring "to a time “after” the internet", the term refers to "an internet state of mind".[4] Eva Folks of AQNB wrote that it "references one so deeply embedded in and propelled by the internet that the notion of a world or culture without or outside it becomes increasingly unimaginable, impossible."

The term is controversial and the subject of much criticism in the art community. Art in Americas Brian Droitcour in 2014 opined that the term fails to describe the form of the works, instead "alluding only to a hazy contemporary condition and the idea of art being made in the context of digital technology."[5] According to a 2015 article in The New Yorker, the term describes "the practices of artists [whose] artworks move fluidly between spaces, appearing sometimes on a screen, other times in a gallery."[6] Fast Companys Carey Dunne summarizes they are "artists who are inspired by the visual cacophony of the web" and notes that "mediums from Second Life portraits to digital paintings on silk to 3-D-printed sculpture" are used.

There is theoretical overlap with writer and artist James Bridle's term New Aesthetic.[7] Ian Wallace of Artspace writes that "the influential blog The New Aesthetic, run since May 2011 by Bridle, is a pioneering institution in the post-Internet movement" and concludes that "much of the energy around the New Aesthetic seems, now, to have filtered over into the "post-Internet" conversation." Post-Internet art is also discussed by Katja Novitskova as being a part of 'New Materialism'.[8] [9]

Wallace considers the Post-Internet term to stand for "a new aesthetic era," moving "beyond making work dependent on the novelty of the Web to using its tools to tackle other subjects". He notes that the post-Internet generation "frequently uses digital strategies to create objects that exist in the real world."[1] Or as Louis Doulas writes in Within Post-Internet, Part One (2011): "There is a difference then, in an art that chooses to exist outside of a browser window and an art that chooses to stay within it."[10]

Influence

The movement spearheaded microgenres and subcultures such as seapunk and vaporwave.[11] In the early 2010s, "post-Internet" was popularly associated with the musician Grimes. Grimes used the term to describe her work at a time when post-Internet concepts were not typically discussed in mainstream music arenas.[12] Amarco referred to Yung Lean as "by and large a product of the internet and a leading example of a generation of youths who garner fame through social media."

Exhibitions

There have been a number of significant group art shows explicitly exploring Post-Internet themes. There was a 2014 exhibition called Art Post-Internet at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, which ARTnews named one of the "most art exhibitions of the 2010s"[13] which "set out to encapsulate the budding movement."[1] MoMA curated Ocean of Images in 2015, a show "probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality."[14] The 2016 9th Berlin Biennale, titled The Present in Drag, curated by the art collective DIS, is described as a Post-Internet exhibition.[15] [16] [17] Other examples include:

Notable artists

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: What Is Post-Internet Art? Understanding the Revolutionary New Art Movement. Artspace. Ian. Wallace. March 18, 2014.
  2. Web site: Dunne. Carey. 2014-03-10. 9 Post-Internet Artists You Should Know. 2021-01-26. Fast Company. en-US.
  3. Web site: What's Postinternet Got to do with Net Art?. Rhizome. Michael. Connor. November 1, 2013.
  4. Web site: Art Post-Internet. 2021-01-23. UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. en.
  5. Web site: Droitcour. Brian. 2014-10-29. The Perils of Post-Internet Art. 2021-01-26. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  6. Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age. Kenneth. Goldsmith. 2015-03-10. The New Yorker. 2016-09-14.
  7. Web site: The New Aesthetic and its Politics booktwo.org. 2021-01-24. en-US.
  8. Web site: Post-Internet Materialism Martijn Hendriks & Katja Novitskova - Features - Metropolis M. 2021-01-24. www.metropolism.com. en.
  9. Web site: Katja Novitskova's Work In A Post-Internet World – the Future In A Mediated Reality < 1/2015 < Issues - kunst.ee. 2021-01-24. ajakirikunst.ee.
  10. Book: Doulas, Louis. Within Post-Internet, Part One. pooool.info. 2011.
  11. Web site: Amarca. Nico. March 1, 2016. From Bucket Hats to Pokémon: Breaking Down Yung Lean's Style. May 24, 2020. High Snobiety.
  12. Web site: Snapes . Laura . Pop star, producer or pariah? The conflicted brilliance of Grimes . . February 19, 2020.
  13. News: The Most Important Art Exhibitions of the 2010s. 17 December 2019. Artnews. Durón. Maximilíano. Greenberger. Alex.
  14. Web site: Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 MoMA. 2021-02-01. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
  15. Web site: You missed the 9th Berlin Biennale. 2020-12-15. showerofkunst.com.
  16. Web site: DIS – the post-internet collective Curating the 9th Berlin Biennale. 2021-01-25. fineartmultiple.com.
  17. Web site: "Die Stadt ist internationaler geworden" Monopol. 2021-02-01. www.monopol-magazin.de. de.
  18. Web site: 2014-04-07. "Raster Raster" at Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles •. 2021-01-26. Mousse Magazine. it-IT.
  19. Web site: 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience at the New Museum. 2021-01-26. DAILY SERVING. en-US.
  20. Web site: Exhibitions.
  21. Web site: 2016-07-17. Exhibition // 'Zero Zero' Proposes A New Post-Internet Landscape. 2021-01-26. Berlin Art Link. en-US.
  22. News: Information, Aesthetics & Fun: An Interview with AIDS-3D. 27 October 2009. Vierkant. Artie. Hyperallergic.
  23. News: Concerning Art Post-Internet. Folks. Eve. 3 March 2014. AQNB.
  24. Web site: R-U-IN?S / GARDEN CLUB KAI (KARI) ALTMANN 2009 - ONGOING. Rhizome Anthology. 27 October 2016 .
  25. News: Aleksandra Domanović. ArtReview. 21 July 2014. McLean-Ferris. Laura. Domanović has ... created paper-stack sculptures (made by printing to the edge of blank A4 paper, at full bleed) that commemorate the day in 2010 that the .yu domain was taken off the Internet.... The memorialising of this moment makes sense for an artist so committed to the Internet as a form....
  26. Web site: 2016-09-11. Parker Ito, or the anxiety of over-hyped young artists. 2021-01-25. Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports. en-GB.
  27. Web site: Rachel De Joode . Akoya Books . 30 March 2021 . en . 10 October 2016.
  28. Web site: HIJACKING CLASSICAL SCULPTURES IN VIENNA Artist Oliver Laric Open-Sources Museum Sculptures and Shows How Technology Has Changed Authenticity. Ssense.com. Heuser. Biance. 4 May 2016 .
  29. Web site: Berlin Biennale Participants. September 2022 .
  30. Web site: ARS ELECTRONICA 2017 . Moulon . Dominique .
  31. Web site: Culture. Magazine Contemporary. 2012-01-30. Post Internet Survival Guide, 2010. 2021-01-24. Magazine Contemporary Culture. en-US.
  32. https://www.gq.com/story/ryder-ripps-cia-redesign No, Ryder Ripps Didn't Do the CIA Redesign|CQ
  33. Web site: 6 'Postinternet' Artists You Should Know . 5 March 2014 .
  34. News: Timur Si-Qin MAGICIAN SPACE 魔金石空间. Artforum. March 2019. Frank. Simon.
  35. https://1701vb.com/post-internet-art-is-the-fast-food-of-the-contemporary-art-world-by-phoebe-cochran/ Post-Internet Art is the Fast Food of the Contemporary World
  36. Web site: Interview Theo Triantafyllidis . 12 February 2024 .
  37. Web site: Frieze Editors Debate the Artist of the Decade Frieze. 2021-01-25. Frieze. 13 December 2019. en.
  38. Web site: 2015-03-18. magazine / archive / Ann Hirsch MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE. 2021-02-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150318222950/http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=1093. 2015-03-18.
  39. Web site: Berlin Biennale Participants. 2020-12-15. en-US.
  40. Mallonee . Laura . Is That a Hand? Glitches Reveal Google Books' Human Scanners . WIRED . 2019-02-07 . 2023-11-07.