Net Art Anatomy

Net Art Anatomyby Rhizome http://rhizome.org/

facilitator: Scott Meisburger @protonpopsicle

What is Rhizome?

• http://rhizome.org

• non-profit art organization based on the internet

• support contemporary art that creates richer and more critical digital culture

• online since 1996

Format• short presentation, looking at art

• workshop

• 4 different stations

• breaks on the hour

• participants will be asked to present

History of Net Art?• 90s

• the beginnings of the web, radical, non-commercial

• interested in form and materiality of code

• 00s • exploring social functions, sharing ie Delicious

• artists adopt commercial web tools, ie YouTube

• late 00s / early 10s • the term ‘postinternet’

• acknowledging the web is not a separate space

• the gallery is just one 'node' in the circulation of images

Net Art Anatomy Intro

• four technical strategies for making art on the web

Collage the Web

Surf Clubs

• early 2000s

• artists blogging together

• a feedback loop of image creation and consumption

• proto-Tumblr

dump.fmhttp://dump.fm/

real-time image sharing

NewHivehttp://newhive.com/

“blank canvas” for expression

• http://newhive.com/mollysoda/up-in-the-cloudstitle

• http://newhive.com/penny/terribl

• http://newhive.com/anac/cuddling

Sawbaumhttp://www.sawbaum.com/

by Hannah Sawtell and Avi Flombaum

<form>alism

JODIJoan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans

• Net.Art

• HTML pages exploring aesthetics of computer errors

• http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/, 1995

• http://geogoo.net/, 2008

• Aestheticizing interface

Form Art, 1997Alexi Shulgin

• http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/

• changes over time since form elements are rendered by operating system

Procedural Tweeting

• creative practice on Twitter is diverse

• idea of the “bot”

• @Horse_ebooks

• posted entertaining non sequiturs

• outed in 2013

Working on My Novel, 2014Cory Arcangel

• originally a Twitter account

• retweet if contains “working on my novel”

• work seeks to find meaning in an aggregate

Glitch Interventionssabotage of corporate platforms

glitchr

• Lithuanian artist Laimonas Zakas

• https://twitter.com/glitchr_

• style associated with “Zalgo” meme

• http://www.eeemo.net

• diacritical marks

Platforms

• the practice is platform agnostic

• Andy Baio’s intervention on medium

• https://medium.com/@waxpancake/d0b32422b05

Projects

• labs.rhizome.org/net-art-anatomy