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==Definition==
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>{{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 described 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" />
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