Art in the age of the internet, 1989 to today
By: edited by Eva Respini
Contributors: Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.); Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780300228250
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Art and the Internet; Art and technology; Exhibitions; Internet
Description: Featuring essays by leading curators, scholars, and critics, this book provides an in-depth look at how the internet has impacted visual art over the past three decades. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Black Lives Matter, the internet's promise to foster communication across borders and democratize information has evolved alongside its rapidly developing technologies. While it has introduced radical changes to how art is made, disseminated, and perceived, the internet has also inspired artists to create inventive and powerful work that addresses new conceptions of community and identity, modes of surveillance, and tactics for resistance. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today traces the relationship between internet culture and artistic practice through the work of contemporary artists such as Ed Atkins, Camille Henrot, and Anicka Yi, and looks back to pre-internet pioneers including Nam June Paik and Lynn Hershman Leeson. Conversations between artists reveal how they have tackled similar issues using different technological tools. Touching on a variety of topics that range from emergent ideas of the body and human enhancement to the effects of digital modes of production on traditional media, and featuring more than 200 images of works including painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects, this volume is packed with insightful revelations about how the internet has affected the trajectory of contemporary art.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, February 7 - May 20 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword / Jill Medvedow; title: Preface / Eva Respini; title: No ghost just a shell / Eva Respini; title: Cybercultural servomechanisms : modeling feedback around 1968 / Caroline A. Jones; title: Machines, tools, and blueprints : charting a connected world / Kim Conaty; title: Ctrl alt delete : the problematics of post-internet art / Gloria Sutton; title: Gaming reality / Tim Griffin; title: Modern problems / Thomas J. Lax; title: It's a website : the enduring promise of art online / Caitlin Jones; title: Professional surfers / Lauren Cornell; title: Hello world, goodbye world, and hello again! : looking at art after the internet / Omar Kholeif; title: Artworks / introduction by Jeffrey De Blois; title: Networks and circulation : Nam June Paik ; Dara Birnbaum ; Simon Denny ; Hito Steyeri ; Aleksandra Domanović ; Laura Owens ; Thomas Ruff ; Paul Pfeiffer ; Seth Price ; David Maljkovic ; Camille Henrot ; Oliver Laric ; Penelope Umbrico ; Ryan McNamara ; Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz ; Gretchen Bender ; Howdoyousayyaminafrican?; title: Conversation : Lynn Hershman Leeson and Hito Steyerl; title: Hybrid Bodies : Judith Barry ; Josh Kline ; Ed Atkins ; Anicka Yi ; Kate Cooper ; Gregory Edwards ; Sondra Perry ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Mariko Mori ; Lee Bul; title: Conversation : Josh Kline and Paul Pfeiffer; title: Virtual worlds : Pierre Huyghe ; M/M Paris ; Cory Arcangel ; Harun Farocki ; Cao Fei ; Jon Rafman ; Antoine Catala ; Jon Kessler ; Michel Majerus ; Mark Leckey ; Olia Lialina ; Albert Oehlen ; Avery Singer; title: States of Surveillance : Julia Scher ; Lynn Hershman Leeson; title: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; title: Jill Magid ; Rabih Mroué ; Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari ; Trevor Paglen; title: Jodi; title: aaajiao; title: Trevor Paglen; title: Conversation : Martine Syms and Wu Tsang; title: Performing the self : Alex Bag ; Wu Tsang ; Frances Stark ; Celia Hempton ; Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin ; Martine Syms ; Juliana Huxtable ; Frank Benson ; DIS ; Cindy Sherman ; Amalia Ulman; title: Timeline.