The One Hour Photo Lab as Exhibition Venue
One summer during college, I worked in a one-hour photo lab in a mall near my hometown. A big part of the job involved squinting at 35mm negatives and assessing the necessary color balance and...
View ArticleNotes on a definition of Net Art based on what I remember from a borrowed...
WWWWWWWWWW.JODI.ORG (1995)Lately, I've been feeling a sense of inhibition relating to Josephine Bosma's book Nettitudes, which I've had checked out from the library for the past six months. I started...
View Article#Review: The New York Times reviews "Design and Violence" at moma.org
Image generated by Online Art Critic (Terry Towery, 1997)Online exhibitions are nothing new—here's Oliver Laric's incomplete timeline of the form from 2013 (he created this when ARTPLUS called theirs...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Lilah Fowler
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies. Lilah Fowler, Module 1 (composition in...
View ArticleFeed my Feed: Radical publishing in Facebook Groups
Robert M. Ochshorn, The App and the Territory (2014)These days, Facebook is so widely used that opting out constitutes an act of defiance of the norm. The refusal to participate can be made for...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Adham Faramawy
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies. (This post contains nudity.)Adham...
View ArticleData Ontology: James Bridle on secrecy, surveillance, and the limits of...
A new exhibition by writer/artist/publisher/technologist James Bridle, "The Glomar Response," is on view through September 5, 2015 at NOME, Berlin. Here, Bridle discusses the exhibition with Fiona...
View ArticleParallax Maps: Joe Hamilton's indirect.flights
Joe Hamilton, Indirect Flights (2015). Screenshot, detail.Indirect Flights (2015), an online work by Joe Hamilton with sound by J.G. Biberkopf and support from The Moving Museum, blends satellite...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Michael Staniak
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Michael Staniak, IMG_800 (2014; image...
View ArticleWhy (and how) our museum started collecting Vines
The 2015-16 English premiere league season kicks off on Saturday, and the National Football Museum will be collecting fan-made archives throughout the season using Webrecorder Beta. To suggest fan-made...
View ArticleCollectible After All: Christiane Paul on net art at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum artport has been an important institutional presence in net art and new media since its launch in 2002. Created and curated by Christiane Paul, artport features online commissions as...
View ArticleThe Flash Artists who Cybersquatted the Whitney Biennial
Joel Ford for whitneybiennial.com, as seen in 2015 on Chrome for Mac. Photo: Heloise Cullen.One story of whitneybiennial.com opens at the electronicOrphanage (EO) in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Founded in...
View ArticleThe Final Post: Computer Evolution on Law and Order
The first computer on the show (1,1).Combining endurance performance art and media studies, artist Jeff Thompson captured over 11,000 images of the show Law & Order while watching the complete...
View ArticleInterview: American Reflexxx
Signe Pierce and Alli Coates, American Reflexxx (2013)Two years ago, performance artist Signe Pierce and videographer Alli Coates staged a public intervention on the Myrtle Beach strip in South...
View ArticleArt in Your Pocket 4: Net Art and Abstraction for the Small Screen
"The Facets of Obama" created by Jonah Brucker-Cohen using the Fracture application by James Alliban, 2011The devices we carry with us can do much more than simply act as communication tools and...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Contra Diction...
View ArticleSerial Experiments for a Better Future: Holly Herndon's 'Platform'
Ever the defender of the laptop as a gateway to more accurate and speculative expressions of the self, Herndon goes for the throat of the issues of our contemporary future with her second album,...
View ArticlePoor Media on Demand: All the files of Printed Web 3
Printed Web 3 was featured on the front page of Rhizome.org as a browsable Apache directory which can now be found here.Earlier this year, I announced an open call for the third issue of Printed Web, a...
View ArticleA Scanner, Darkly: On Andrea Crespo's "polymorphoses"
Andrea Crespo, multi (sensorygates), (2015; detail)In futurist Ray Kurzweil's early version of the flatbed scanner, angled mirrors feed the image of a document through a series of encoding CCDs....
View ArticleSimulation as Institutional Critique: Lawrence Lek's 'Unreal Estate'
Lawrence Lek, Unreal Estate (the Royal Academy is yours) (2015; video game still)Wealth is monolithic: it refutes argument, pointed criticism, direct gaze. The architecture of today's wealth is...
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