黑料不打烊

Just as twentieth-century modernism was in large part determined by the relationship between craft and the emergent technologies of manufacturing, mass media, and lens-based imagery, the most pressing condition underlying contemporary culture today—from artistic practice and social theory to quotidian language—may well be the omnipresence of the internet. The term “post-internet” refers not to a time “after” the internet, but rather to an internet state of mind, to think in the fashion of the network. In the context of artistic practice, post-internet describes an art object created with a consciousness of the networks within which it exists—from conception and production to dissemination and reception. Though the terminology used to describe these phenomena is still nascent in development and not yet in widespread use, “Art Post-Internet” presents a broad survey of art that is controversially defined as “post-internet,” which is to say, consciously created in a milieu where the centrality of the network is assumed. From the changing nature of the image to the circulation of cultural objects, from the politics of participation to new understandings of materiality, the interventions presented under this rubric attempt nothing short of the redefinition of art for the age of the internet.

“Art Post-Internet” is curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham. Participating artists and collectives include AIDS-3D, Cory Arcangel, Alisa Baremboym, Bernadette Corporation, Dara Birnbaum, Juliette Bonneviot, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Tyler Coburn, Petra Cortright, Simon Denny, Aleksandra Domanovi?, Harm van den Dorpel, Ed Fornieles, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, GCC, Josh Kline, Oliver Laric, LuckyPDF, Tobias Madison and Emanuel Rossetti, Marlie Mul, Katja Novitskova, Marisa Olson, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Aude Pariset, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Hannah Sawtell, Ben Schumacher, Timur Si-Qin, Hito Steyerl, Artie Vierkant, Lance Wakeling, and Jordan Wolfson. The exhibition acts as an informal coda to UCCA’s 2013 exhibition “ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice,” which engaged young Chinese artists working with similar themes. The exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut China.