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.
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.