Art and the internet - Suman Sigdel

"Art and the internet" discusses on various types of arts from the late 1990s.
Discussed art types include : Screenbased arts, Collaborative work of art through data exchange, expressionist art through cameras (Jennicam)

Alexei Shulgin : "The globality of net has made it possible for anyone to have a massive audience with no institutional endorsement"

Mark Amerika

Time Magazine 100 Innovator
  • GRAMMATRON

  • Grammatron - an art work to track the developments of the "Web Culture" in network narrative environment.

  • Mid nineties - Creative writing fellow at Brown University

  • Spring 2000 - Grammatron was selected as one of the first works exhibited at Whitney Museum
  • Author of Remixthebook

    • Julian Opie

  • Fully screen based art rather than digital only as a finished object.
  • Early 1980s - Studied at Goldsmith London
  • Art - Thick black outlines and filled in with solid areas of flat color
  • A blend of minimalism and pop art.
  • "The process of reading things as simulations but knowing at the same time that they are real is quite central to my work" - Opie