The result is a scene that is equally obsessed with the future and the recent past, and happiest when the two collide on a single, slightly broken web page.
Saving What Is Left
Net art has always lived in the gap between what a browser is supposed to do and what it can be made to do. The best pieces feel like they are breaking something, even when they are working exactly as intended.
- Datamoshed video loops
- Animated GIFs with 16 colours
- Tiled page backgrounds
- Emulated browser plugins
Anyone else going to the next one? Let us meet up at the merch table.
Finally someone said it.
I printed this out and stuck it on my studio wall. Literally.
Came for the photos, stayed for the essay.