The doubt of the matter: Post-Internet at the expository test

Authors

  • Paolo Berti Sapienza Università Roma

Abstract

In the background of an approach to the exhibition institute, we will reconstruct the circumstances in which the so-called Post-Internet Art took shape (in the international critical context, at least since 2006 through the work of Marisa Olson). A "web-aware" art form but detached from its telematic, technical and strictly electronic significance, assuming the Internet no longer as innovation but as banality, as a "cognitive effect" that reverberates in an offline sphere – though dominated by the prism of ubiquitous hyperconnection – in which museums and galleries also have a new concrete role. Among a performative (the return of the image) and a constative dimension (the archive and memory, now digital and algorithmic), we will investigate the controversial history of the term Post-Internet and its most important exhibitions, and also the doubt of critical trends floating between unquestionable declarations of Internet death (Hito Steyerl) and suspected rebranding phenomena (Domenico Quaranta).

Author Biography

Paolo Berti, Sapienza Università Roma

Paolo Berti è dottorando in Storia dell’arte contemporanea presso La Sapienza Università di Roma. Si occupa principalmente di rapporti tra arte, nuove tecnologie e società delle reti. Ha scritto a più riprese di Net Art, media locativi ed eredità situazioniste, a cui ha affiancato esperienze di traduzione e curatela.

Published

15-12-2019

How to Cite

Berti, P. (2019). The doubt of the matter: Post-Internet at the expository test. Elephant & Castle, (21). Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/308

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