Whitechapel Gallery,London
This uneven, fascinating and terrifying prove presents a history of internet art in a series of snapshots – and a signpost that things maintain just begunElectronic Superhighway is a mess of monitors and post-internet paintings, or genuine dumb objects and unreal dumb intimacies. Noisy and confusing,there’s lots of sex, selfies, or manipulated images,YouTube comedy acts and Jill Magid’s up-skirt camera attached to her shoe. Working backward from the present to the 1960s, we are sucked into a world of grainy video experiments and computer-assisted drawings, and a smashed-up monitor and keyboard yelling from the floor,Nam June Paik’s bank of monitors with its roaring cacophony of competing and choreographed images, HD film installations and trivia. Related: Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first Continue reading...
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