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Conjuring Post-Worthlessness: Contemporary Web Art And The Postmodern Context: Part 1, Brett Stalbaum
Conjuring Post-Worthlessness: Contemporary Web Art And The Postmodern Context: Part 1, Brett Stalbaum
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This article is part one of two of an analysis of the Jean Baudrillard's essay, "A Conjuration of Imbeciles". This essay compares the idea of art as a metaphor for French politics and the “uselessness” of contemporary art. A sense of postmodernism is drawn from that comparison and relates to contemporary art shared on the World Wide Web. Inevitable messages and meaning found in art will change, but economics and distribution continues to ground the economy on a global scale. Therefore, contemporary art represented on the web actively dates the practice of art, and the value of the practice is …
Ontological Problems With Web Art, Jan Ekenberg
Ontological Problems With Web Art, Jan Ekenberg
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Jan Ekenberg shares how the idea of categorizing, analyzing, and ultimately searching for web art has been very difficult compared to the same process within traditional artworks. These problems are derived from the fact that web-based artworks are from a new medium to which we are not completely able to describe yet. To add to this issue, we see how online works are ever expanding and evolving which makes it near impossible to definitively organize them.