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Post-Internet art is a contemporary art movement influenced by Internet culture. The installationMaid in Heaven / En Plein Air in Hell (My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Cheeto Problem)byParker Ito(White Cube,2014) serves as an example.

Post-Internetis a 21st-centuryart movement[1]involving works that are derived from the Internet or its effects on aesthetics, culture and society.[2]

Definition

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Post-Internet is a loosely-defined term[1]that was coined by artist/curatorMarisa Olsonin an attempt to describe her practice.[3]It emerged from mid-2000s discussions aboutInternet artby Gene McHugh (author of a blog titled "Post-Internet" ), andArtie Vierkant(artist, and creator ofImage Objectsculpture series).[4]The movement itself grew out ofInternet Art (or Net Art).[4]According to theUCCA Center for Contemporary ArtinBeijing,rather than referring "to a time “after” theinternet",the term refers to" an internet state of mind ".[5]Eva Folks of AQNB wrote that it "references one so deeply embedded in and propelled by the internet that the notion of a world or culture without or outside it becomes increasingly unimaginable, impossible."[6]

The term is controversial and the subject of much criticism in the art community.[1]Art in America's Brian Droitcour in 2014 opined that the term fails to describe the form of the works, instead "alluding only to a hazy contemporary condition and the idea of art being made in the context of digital technology."[7]According to a 2015 article inThe New Yorker,the term describes "the practices of artists [whose] artworks move fluidly between spaces, appearing sometimes on a screen, other times in a gallery."[8]Fast Company's Carey Dunne summarizes they are "artists who are inspired by the visual cacophony of the web" and notes that "mediums fromSecond Lifeportraits to digital paintings on silk to 3-D-printed sculpture "are used.[3]

There is theoretical overlap with writer and artistJames Bridle's termNew Aesthetic.[9][2]Ian Wallace ofArtspacewrites that "the influential blog The New Aesthetic, run since May 2011 by Bridle, is a pioneering institution in the post-Internet movement" and concludes that "much of the energy around the New Aesthetic seems, now, to have filtered over into the" post-Internet "conversation."[2]Post-Internet art is also discussed byKatja Novitskovaas being a part of 'New Materialism'.[10][11]

Wallace considers the Post-Internet term to stand for "anew aestheticera, "moving" beyond making work dependent on the novelty of the Web to using its tools to tackle other subjects ". He notes that the post-Internet generation" frequently uses digital strategies to create objects that exist in the real world. "[2]Or as Louis Doulas writes inWithin Post-Internet, Part One(2011): "There is a difference then, in an art that chooses to exist outside of a browser window and an art that chooses to stay within it."[12]

Influence

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Vaporwaveis among the Internet-centricmicrogenresand subcultures spearheaded by the post-Internet movement.[1]

The movement spearheadedmicrogenresandsubculturessuch asseapunkandvaporwave.[1]In the early 2010s, "post-Internet" was popularly associated with the musicianGrimes.Grimes used the term to describe her work at a time when post-Internet concepts were not typically discussed in mainstream music arenas.[13]Amarco referred toYung Leanas "by and large a product of the internet and a leading example of a generation of youths who garner fame through social media."[1]

Exhibitions

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There have been a number of significant group art shows explicitly exploring Post-Internet themes. There was a 2014 exhibition calledArt Post-Internetat Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, whichARTnewsnamed one of the "most art exhibitions of the 2010s"[14]which "set out to encapsulate the budding movement."[2]MoMAcuratedOcean of Imagesin 2015, a show "probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality."[15]The 2016 9thBerlin Biennale,titledThe Present in Drag,curated by the art collectiveDIS,is described as a Post-Internet exhibition.[16][17][18]Other examples include:

  • Raster Raster,Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, 2014[19]
  • 2015 Triennial: Surround AudienceatNew Museum,New York, 2015[20][21]
  • Zero Zero,Annka Kulty Gallery, London, 2016[22]

Notable artists

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  • Sculpture of Rihanna as an Acéfalo in the 9th Berlin Biennale by Juan Sebastián Peláez
    Sculpture ofRihannaas anAcéfaloin the 9th Berlin Biennale by Juan Sebastián Peláez
  • Anna Uddenberg at the 9th Berlin Biennale, 2016.
    Anna Uddenberg at the 9th Berlin Biennale, 2016.
  • GCC collective at the 9th Berlin Biennale, 2016.
    GCC collective at the 9th Berlin Biennale, 2016.
  • Part of Artie Vierkant's Image Objects series.
    Part ofArtie Vierkant'sImage Objectsseries.
  • Photo by DIS. Fair Trade, Frieze Projects 2012
    Photo byDIS.Fair Trade,Frieze Projects2012
  • Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity, Katja Novitskova, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014.
    Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity,Katja Novitskova,Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014.

See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • Novitskova, Katja.Post internet survival guide 2010.Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011.ISBN978-3-86895-350-3
  • McHugh, Gene.Post Internet. Notes on the Internet and Art 12.29.09 > 09.05.10,Brescia: Link Editions, 2011.
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