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Every webpage deserves to be a place
Matt Webb added a new feature to his website called cursor party. It lets web visitors see other people’s cursors on his site. And they can chat with each other and share text highlights. “It’s a miracle that we can feel togetherness over the internet. And yet! And yet!”
This is the internet that I fell in love with, almost thirty years ago <3
all text in nyc
“all text in nyc” is a search engine that enables exploration of New York City’s urban landscape through text. Brilliant online project by Yufeng Zhao.
Cyclops
Cyclops, by Trevor Paglen, is a networked performance, collaborative narrative, and alternate-reality-game designed to be played by groups of people working together across the word.
“Paglen’s interactive speculative reality artwork, titled CYCLOPS, takes the audience on a journey through the world of 1960s-era CIA mind control experiments, psychological operations, and unexplained historical anomalies. For this new work, the artist drew inspiration from Ed Ruscha’s Rocky II sculpture hidden in the Mojave Desert; collisions of facts and fictions in Benjamín Labatut’s book When We Cease to Understand the World; and Internet-era enigmas such as the “Cicada 3301” project.
Featuring documents, videos, and other archival materials produced between the 1950s and early 1970s, CYCLOPS requires active engagement and participation. Users are tasked with reconstructing events, deciphering codes, conducting open-source intelligence investigations, and analyzing music, literature, and poetry to move through a work that is part treasure-hunt, part historical unfiction, and part cybersecurity challenge. In this way, CYCLOPS teaches many of the skills behind Paglen’s own investigative practice, exploring how a clandestine history of research into psychological operations, mind control, and paranormal phenomena has shaped media and politics of the present moment. This networked, collaborative experience spanning the digital and physical worlds can be accessed online at cyclops.sh.”
All About Computer Love
Artist Sara Martinez made an amazing interactive, console log essay “about love for computers, combating escapism and deactivating healing fantasies to face the world“. This is net art at its best.
Domestic Tension
For Domestic Tension (2007), a networked durational performance, Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal confined himself to a gallery space. He broadcasted over the internet 24/7, inviting viewers to watch and chat with him at all hours. The audience was also given the option of shooting Bilal with a robotically controlled paintball gun.
Solar Protocol

Solar Protocol
is a web platform hosted across a network of solar-powered servers set up in different locations around the world. A solar-powered server is a computer that is powered by a solar panel and a small battery. Each server can only offer intermittent connectivity that is dependent on available sunshine, the length of day and local weather conditions. When connected as a network, the servers coordinate to serve a website from whichever of them is enjoying the most sunshine at the time.Synthetic Messenger
“Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find”.
Great project by Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne.
Time Out of Joint
“Time Out of Joint” is an online exhibition, curated by Eva & Franco Mattes for the Yerevan Biennal, and entirely taking place on the Darknet, a remote location at the “periphery” of the Internet, where time operates at a slow pace and pages load unhurriedly.
New works by six artists including Joshua Citarella, Clusterduck, David Horvitz, Vladan Joler, Amalia Ulman and 2050+ will be added once every two weeks, from October 2020 to January 2021, and in peer-to-peer style they are available to be seen, copied, reused… The title for this show was borrowed from a novel by Philip K. Dick.
To see the exhibition download the Tor Browser at www.torproject.org
and go to -> http://fjroxjgxhmd2ymp2.onion
WindowSwap
Open a new window somewhere in the world. Simple, amazing project.
Kopimi Totem. A Wi-fi Sculpture
The Kopimi Totem, by Evan Roth, is a sculpture composed of seven open wireless routers arranged in the iconic Kopimi pyramid. The shape of the sculpture is also mirrored in ASCII form when a visitor opens the wireless settings on her laptop or mobile device.
Moody Vibes
Moody Vibes, by Claudia Mate, emoji sketch testing _playGnd animation tool create by Nick Briz + Branger_Briz…
Total Jodi
Real Internet Art unboxing
Constant Dullaart unboxing the Real Internet Art project by Fabien Mousse…
Hyper Current Living
“Hyper Current Living is a performance by Ryder Ripps in which he “lives” and “works” at Red Bull Music Academy between April 28th and May 5th 2013 – he’ll be drinking Red Bull and creating digital stuff at hyper speed. In the stream, our output is valued by its proliferation and its likes and favs – what incentive is there to spend 4 years writing a novel if it will just be a link in a stream lasting a few hours? The piece brings this trait into light by designating a time and space to the creation of such fragmented, short interactions native to social media.”
The Internet Makes Me Happy
Back to 1996. The Digital Hijack
One of my favourite net art works of all time. Ladies and Gentlemen, etoy‘s Digital Hijack (Ars Electronica version)…
Desktop Views
Desktop is…, a seminal work by Alexei Shulgin (1997), has a brand new cover version. It’s called Desktop Views (2011), a net art remake by Adam Cruces…
Once Upon
Once Upon’ are three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to the memories of Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied.
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How To / Internet
How To is an ongoing series of instructional videos by Jaakko Pallasvuo about ‘paths to success in the international art world’…
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