"I know people think I’m poor because they’re always telling me I should write a book. I never tell anyone to write a book. Whenever I meet someone who has just published a book, there is a high probability that I hate their book and all my _...Read More_

"What was net art and what can we learn from it? In the 1990s, the Internet offered a chance to redefine the relationship between art, theory, politics, and the public. Mostly overlooked by the art world at the time, this art movement is _...Read More_

"In the past few years there have been radical transformations within internet subcultures. For many of us who grew up online – as nerds, gamers, or introverted artists – the internet was a place you could go to “be a loser with your _...Read More_

"Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities _...Read More_

"Never send to know for whom the meta verses; it verses for thee."

"There’s a phrase that’s been living inside my head lately, a brain parasite, some burrowing larva covered in thorns and barbs of words. When it moves around in there it churns at the soft tissues like someone’s stuck a very small hand _...Read More_

"The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain, to succeed the "Web 2.0" of Google and Facebook seems to be reaching a threshold of ambient cultural awareness such that non-tech pundits, news-engaged normies, _...Read More_

"At their simplest, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, can be thought of as “bitcoin for art”. Just as bitcoin created the ability to spend and save a sort of digital money without any centralised authority, so too do NFTs allow for pictures, _...Read More_

"Launched in LA by real-life friends Angela Ruis and Lauren Schiller, OGBFF – AKA Original Best Friend Forever – has been spicing up the everyday looks of the chronically online for the best part of two years. The duo met pre-pandemic, _...Read More_

"In the art world's internal sense of time, the degree show is in many ways the equivalent of New Year's Eve: a point at which to collectively celebrate the birth of the future, while taking stock of the events of the past year. Reflecting _...Read More_

"A new exhibition examines the relationship between internet and art from how we view older pieces to how newer visions have been shaped by online tools"

"This week’s newsletter is a little unusual. It only has one section, which is devoted to sketching out some possible contours of a left tech policy. In what follows, I take the basic principles of decommodification and democratization and _...Read More_

“When the machines are on and your fingers are on the keyboard, you are in connection with some space that is beyond the screen. And this space is only there when the machines are on. It’s a new world in which you enter. (…). It’s not about _...Read More_

"Art both expresses and reflects the society in which it was produced. In an Internet-obsessed society it hardly comes as a surprise, then, that Internet art is thriving"

"Ben Tarnoff’s history of networked life and the rise of a corporate-controlled web doubles as a polemic, arguing for a people-first Internet."