Internet_art: from the birth of the Web to the rise of NFTs / Omar Kholeif.

By:

Kholeif, Omar [author.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1838664076
9781838664077

Other title:

Internet art

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

776 KHO 23

LOC classification:

NX180.I57 K464 2023

Contents:

Prelude: Time is just a memory. What's in a name? -- Beginnings: from here to there to everywhere -- 1989: the year that changed the world -- Will this destroy us? -- Time machine: pioneering anarchists -- The rise of the digital -- Living media -- You and me and everyone we know: find me in an ocean of images -- The possibilities of a digital culture -- The shape of the future -- Is the Earth a scorched cable? -- We are the metaverse: a parting verse.

Summary: "Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the Internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital. The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Naim June Paik, Heather Philipson, and Wu Tang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	776 KHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100612259

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time

Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital.

The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the Internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital. The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Naim June Paik, Heather Philipson, and Wu Tang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr. Omar Kholeif is an author, curator, broadcaster, and the avatar of Dr. O - a polymath who lives in the metaverse. A leading commentator on art and digital culture, Kholeif is the author of dozens of books, which have sold more than 100,000 copies in English alone, curator of over sixty exhibitions, and founder of www.artpost21.com, which supports art and social justice in the age of the 'meta' metaverse. Kholeif is the Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.