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{{short description|21st Centurycentury art movement}}

'''Post-Internet''' is a 21st -century [[art movement]]<ref name="amarca16"/> involving works that are derived from the Internet or its effects on aesthetics, culture and society.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/post_internet_art|title=What Is Post-Internet Art? Understanding the Revolutionary New Art Movement|website=Artspace|first=Ian|last=Wallace|date=March 18, 2014}}</ref>

Post-Internet is a loosely-defined term<ref name="amarca16" /> that was coined by artist/curator [[Marisa Olson]] in an attempt to describe her practice.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Dunne|first=Carey|date=2014-03-10|title=9 Post-Internet Artists You Should Know|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3027356/9-post-internet-artists-you-should-know|access-date=2021-01-26|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}</ref> It emerged from mid-2000s discussions about [[Internet art]] by Gene McHugh (author of a blog titled "Post-Internet"), and [[Artie Vierkant]] (artist, and creator of ''Image Object'' sculpture series).<ref name="rhizome2013">{{cite web|url=http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/nov/1/postinternet/|title=What's Postinternet Got to do with Net Art?|website=[[Rhizome]]|first=Michael|last=Connor|date=November 1, 2013}}</ref> The movement itself grew out of [[Internet art|Internet Art (or Net Art)]].<ref name="rhizome2013"/> According to the [[UCCA Center for Contemporary Art]] in [[Beijing]], rather than referring "to a time “after” the [[internet]]", the term refers to "an internet state of mind".<ref name=UCCA>{{Cite web|title=Art Post-Internet|url=https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/art-post-internet//|access-date=2021-01-23|website=UCCA Center for Contemporary Art|language=en}}</ref> Eva Folks of AQNB wrote that it "references one so deeply embedded in and propelled by the internet that the notion of a world or culture without or outside it becomes increasingly unimaginable, impossible."<ref name=AQNB/>

The term is controversial and the subject of much criticism in the art community.<ref name="amarca16" /> ''[[Art in America]]''{{'}}s Brian Droitcour in 2014 opined that the term fails to describe the form of the works, instead "alluding only to a hazy contemporary condition and the idea of art being made in the context of digital technology."<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Droitcour|first1=Brian|date=2014-10-29|title=The Perils of Post-Internet Art|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/the-perils-of-post-internet-art-63040/|access-date=2021-01-26|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref> According to a 2015 article in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', the term describes "the practices of artists [whose] artworks move fluidly between spaces, appearing sometimes on a screen, other times in a gallery."<ref name="comesof">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/post-internet-poetry-comes-of-age|title=Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age|last=Kenneth|first=Goldsmith|date=2015-03-10|magazine=The New Yorker|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-14}}</ref> ''Fast Company''{{'}}s Carey Dunne summarizes they are "artists who are inspired by the visual cacophony of the web" and notes that "mediums from [[Second Life]] portraits to digital paintings on silk to 3-D-printed sculpture" are used.<ref name=":2" />

There is theoretical overlap with writer and artist [[James Bridle]]'s term [[New Aesthetic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New Aesthetic and its Politics {{!}} booktwo.org|url=http://booktwo.org/notebook/new-aesthetic-politics/|access-date=2021-01-24|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Ian Wallace of ''[[Artspace (website)|Artspace]]'' writes that "the influential blog The New Aesthetic, run since May 2011 by writer and artist James Bridle, is a pioneering institution in the post-Internet movement" and concludes that "much of the energy around the New Aesthetic seems, now, to have filtered over into the "post-Internet" conversation."<ref name=":1" /> Post-Internet art is also discussed by [[Katja Novitskova]] as being a part of 'New Materialism'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Post-Internet Materialism Martijn Hendriks & Katja Novitskova - Features - Metropolis M|url=http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/23573_post_internet_materialism|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.metropolism.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Katja Novitskova's Work In A Post-Internet World – the Future In A Mediated Reality < 1/2015 < Issues - kunst.ee|url=https://ajakirikunst.ee/?c=magazine&l=en&t=katja-novitskovas-work-in-a-post-internet-world--the-future-in-a-mediated-reality&id=1331|access-date=2021-01-24|website=ajakirikunst.ee}}</ref>

Ian Wallace of ''[[Artspace (website)|Artspace]]'' considers the Post-Internet term to stand for "a [[New Aesthetic|new aesthetic]] era," moving "beyond making work dependent on the novelty of the Web to using its tools to tackle other subjects". He notes that the post-Internet generation "frequently uses digital strategies to create objects that exist in the real world."<ref name=":1"/> Or as Louis Doulas writes in ''Within Post-Internet, Part One'' (2011): "There is a difference then, in an art that chooses to exist outside of a browser window and an art that chooses to stay within it."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Doulas|first=Louis|title=Within Post-Internet, Part One|publisher=pooool.info|year=2011|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>

There have been a number of significant group art shows explicitly exploring Post-Internet themes. There was a 2014 exhibition called ''Art Post-Internet'' at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, which ''[[ARTnews]]'' named one of the "most art exhibitions of the 2010s"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/most-important-exhibitions-2010s-1202672433/|title=The Most Important Art Exhibitions of the 2010s|date=17 December 2019|work=Artnews|last1=Durón|first1=Maximilíano|last2=Greenberger|first2=Alex}}</ref> which "set out to encapsulate the budding movement."<ref name=":1"/> [[Museum of Modern Art|MoMaMoMA]] curated ''Ocean of Images'' (in 2015)'','' a show "probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1539|access-date=2021-02-01|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}</ref> The 2016 9th [[Berlin Biennale]], titled ''The Present in Drag'', curated by the art collective [[DIS (collective)|DIS]], is described as a Post-Internet exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web|title=You missed the 9th Berlin Biennale|url=http://showerofkunst.com/sok/2016/12/31/berlin-biennale-ix/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=showerofkunst.com}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=DIS – the post-internet collective Curating the 9th Berlin Biennale|url=https://fineartmultiple.com/blog/dis-berlin-biennale/|access-date=2021-01-25|website=fineartmultiple.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title="Die Stadt ist internationaler geworden" {{!}} Monopol|url=https://www.monopol-magazin.de/die-stadt-ist-internationaler-geworden|access-date=2021-02-01|website=www.monopol-magazin.de|language=de}}</ref> Other examples include:

File:Rihanna-Berlin-Biennale.jpg|Sculpture of [[Rihanna]] as an [[Headless men|Acéfalo]] in the [[9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art|9th Berlin Biennale]] by Juan Sebastián Peláez

File:Artie Vierkant.jpg|Part of [[Artie Vierkant]]'s ''Image Objects'' series.

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