19 February 2016 • Staff
In 1974, Nam June Paik described the potential of a communications network enabled through technology as the Electronic Superhighway. Today the Internet is a vast system of bottomless pits containing everything from cat memes to Ancient Greek theatre.
20 January 2015 • Staff
Digital art, new media art, internet art, glitch, gif, pixel art, post internet, cyber art, electronic art, surveillance art – there are a lot of terms flying around trying to describe what artists do now, and I thought its a good place to start – learning to speak digital, because as it turns out often even the people who use those terms have no idea what they mean. So here goes the terms and what they mean in simple non arty English.
8 April 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
‘Post-internet Art’ – a current buzz-term meaning work informed by the web, rather than anticipating its demise – is well represented in London now in shows by Camille Henrot (Chisenhale), Hito Steyerl (ICA) and Trisha Baga (Anita Zabludowicz).
