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Updated · whitney.org · Jul 30
Whitney Museum Opens 100-Work Internet Art Show for artport's 25th Anniversary
Updated
Updated · whitney.org · Jul 30

Whitney Museum Opens 100-Work Internet Art Show for artport's 25th Anniversary

1 articles · Updated · whitney.org · Jul 30

Summary

  • More than 100 artport commissions will anchor Whitney Museum's "artport: A History of Internet Art," opening Nov. 21 online and on the museum's sixth floor.
  • The exhibition marks 25 years of artport, the Whitney's net-art platform launched in 2001, and traces internet art through Gate Pages, ongoing Commissions, and the Sunrise/Sunset and On the Hour series.
  • Operator's "Human Unreadable Act III" will make its world premiere in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater on Nov. 19, 21 and 22 as part of the anniversary program.
  • Code, data visualization, gaming environments and AI-driven works frame the show's broader themes: privacy, identity, surveillance and the blurring of online and offline life.

Insights

Does forcing decentralized internet art into a physical museum gallery destroy the very rebellious ethos it was originally built upon?
How will the Whitney preserve obsolete code and blockchain elements from its 25-year archive before digital rot erases them?
Can a live choreography performance dictated by cryptography truly capture the human struggle against an increasingly automated world?