1. Net Art Anatomy
by Rhizome http://rhizome.org/
facilitator: Scott Meisburger
@protonpopsicle

2. 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

3. Format
• short presentation, looking at art
• workshop
• 4 different stations
• breaks on the hour
• participants will be asked to present

4. 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

5. Net Art Anatomy Intro
• four technical strategies for making art on the
web

6. Collage the Web

7. Surf Clubs
• early 2000s
• artists blogging together
• a feedback loop of image
creation and consumption
• proto-Tumblr

8. dump.fm
http://dump.fm/
real-time image sharing

9. NewHive
http://newhive.com/
“blank canvas” for expression

10. • http://newhive.com/mollysoda/up-in-the-cloudstitle
• http://newhive.com/penny/terribl
• http://newhive.com/anac/cuddling

11. Sawbaum
http://www.sawbaum.com/
by Hannah Sawtell and Avi Flombaum

12. <form>alism

13. JODI
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans

14. • Net.Art
• HTML pages exploring aesthetics of computer
errors
• http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/, 1995
• http://geogoo.net/, 2008
• Aestheticizing interface

15. Form Art, 1997
Alexi Shulgin

16. • http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
• changes over time since form elements are
rendered by operating system

17. Procedural Tweeting

18. • creative practice on Twitter is diverse
• idea of the “bot”
• @Horse_ebooks
• posted entertaining non sequiturs
• outed in 2013

19. Working on My Novel, 2014
Cory Arcangel

20. • originally a Twitter account
• retweet if contains “working on my novel”
• work seeks to find meaning in an aggregate

21. Glitch Interventions
sabotage of corporate platforms

22. glitchr

23. • Lithuanian artist Laimonas Zakas
• https://twitter.com/glitchr_
• style associated with “Zalgo” meme
• http://www.eeemo.net
• diacritical marks

24. Platforms
• the practice is platform agnostic
• Andy Baio’s intervention on medium
• https://medium.com/@waxpancake/
d0b32422b05

25. Projects
• labs.rhizome.org/net-art-anatomy