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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.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Kholeif (Time, Forward!), senior curator at the Sharjah Art Foundation, charts the history of internet art in this exciting outing. Beginning in 1989 with the creation of the World Wide Web, Kholeif explains how the internet's "artists and curators, in tandem with programmers, engineers, and investors, altered contemporary culture forever." Among the influential players are Andy Warhol, who died two years before the internet's genesis but whose techniques of "constant... repetition of imagery and objects from popular culture" have become the internet's lingua franca; Trevor Paglen, who captured aerial images of the NSA headquarters in 2013 and distributed them online; and Judith Barry, who developed a website that enabled users to formulate requests for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Kholeif also discusses how browser art, telematic art, and NFTs have "fundamentally shifted"aspects of art-making, detailing how the proliferation of forms has broadened what stories can be told. Kholeif weaves in personal anecdotes, as well, from connecting with "hackers and tinkerers" whom he "soon discovered to be artists" in the internet's early days, to advocating for internet-native art as a curator. The history and analysis are informative and fast-moving, and Kholeif's takes on how art can change (and be changed by) technology are shrewd. Art historians and those interested in contemporary art will find much to gain. Photos. (Apr.)

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Dr. Omar Kholeifis 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.