“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art
(In Filterworld, everything must be a meme, like a remixable joke or image optimized to travel across the Internet.)
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In her essay,
A Vernacular Web
(2005), Olia Lialina describes the web of the mid-1990s as:
A Vernacular Web
(2005), Olia Lialina describes the web of the mid-1990s as:
bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction. It was a web of sudden connections and personal links. Pages were built on the edge of tomorrow, full of hope for a faster connection and a more powerful computer... it was a web of amateurs soon to be washe... See more
Reader
As the realm of virtual information complexifies, it is increasingly difficult to collectively experience, let alone agree on concrete descriptions of events. The platforms we use to communicate often lack archival affordances, optimizing instead for the nonstop production of new content. So context collapses and signifiers empty their meaning. Whe... See more
Libby Marrs • How to Read the Internet
Online appearance outweighing almost all else is a law that now applies to all kinds of businesses:
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
- "Pater said beauty is impossible without some element of strangeness; the potential for beauty was built into his own “strange webs” of significance, spun in such writerly fashion around the object with which he was in dialogue. Criticism is one way to be the spider, paying out silk, both navigating and creating the web as one goes. What defines ... See more