The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology - Grand Format

Net art, which explores the Internet as material and concept, involves an astonishingly diverse set of practices that now stretch back decades, incorporating any number of disciplines : painting, performance, poetry, creative code. This book considers this heterogeneous field of practice by bringing together 100 exemplary works of net art, from 1980s animations for the Brazilian Videotexto network to artist-made virtual worlds of the 2010s.
Although the works vary widely, looking at them together and in content offers a deep understanding of internet culture through time, and yields new insight into our networked present. Rhizome, an organization that has championed born-digital art and culture since its founding in 1996, selected these works for the online exhibition Net Art Anthology and its gallery-based spinoff, "The Art Happens Here," which opened in January 2019 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.