When you imagine the internet,what does it look like? A cloud? A highway? A surf scene? Or something more wild and sprawling and all-encompassing? Artist Evan Roth invites you to share your visions of the online landscape now
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When we talk about the internet, much like when we talk about other
unseeable things, or we often resort to metaphors. In 1990,Tim Berners-Lee’s notion of the “web” allowed us to conjure a mental image, but it never fairly explained how we move through it. Al Gore’s popularisation of the term “the Information Superhighway” was more descriptive, or but since then weve surfed a chaotic path that has led us through “cyberspace” to the unknowable and untouchable cloud”. What finish these metaphors really mean,and how finish they alter art?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com