Title: Postinternet
Subtitle: Art After the Internet
Author: Marisa Olson
Published in: Foam Magazine | Issue 29 – Winter 2011
Format: 218 pages, 30 x 23 x 15 cm
ISBN: 978-9-0705-1624-6
Form Marisa Olson’s essay:
“In the postinternet era this phenomenon often manifests in the difference between critics who blog and bloggers who style themselves [self-appointed] critics. Despicable as the latter may be, they are also among the savviest internet users. Understanding that media, themselves (perhaps because they are all extensions of other media – and of ourselves – as McLuhan taught us) perform a sort of evolutionary ring cycle, they often flip-flop their flip- pant love-it/hate-it take on an artist’s work as frequently as they refresh their homepage.Yet these character flaws in the artworld’s online manifestations are not reasons to dismiss the internet or deny the postinternet.They are simply online reflections of a broader culture; one that just so happens to be internet-obsessed.”
From the introduction to Foam Magazine:
“Asking the simple yet difficult question What’s Next? This ten year anniversary issue takes stock of the current position of photography. In recent years, the digitalization of the medium brought about fundamental changes that have redetermined our entire visual culture, utterly transforming what we consider a photograph. Freed from the usual format, this issue is formed from six different sections: Independent, From Here On(line), Curating The Space, Magazines, Next Generation and Technology Matters. These chapters bundle interviews, in depth essays, statements and manifestos together to engage in discussion with those who can be conceived as representing the photographic community to raise key points and pose critical questions; the most basic of which – what is next?”