Artists working with the Internet have to adapt, adopt, and respond to a continually developing medium with ever expanding potential. In this panel, we'll talk with leading artists about their practice and the current state of Internet art. Artists will discuss how recent developments, like the boom in online video, the proliferation of social media and mobile technologies, and the introduction of HTML5, have prompted new artistic strategies and aesthetics. The conversation will foreground how artists are often the first to experiment with and think through the new possibilities and limits of new technologies. Rhizome is a leading organization dedicated to Internet art. Founded in 1996, the organization has tracked and supported the development of this field since its inception. Rhizome supports artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. We are affiliated with and based within the New Museum in New York.
Nick Hasty is an artist, programmer, writer & musician. He currently serves as Director of Technology for Rhizome, where he reengineered the site's archive of New Media Art, the ArtBase, and the entire site as a whole. He recently collaborated with Ryan Trecartin in building the user-generated video art platform riverthe.net, and plays drums and electronics in the Brooklyn-based band Source of Yellow. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Georgia, and holds a Master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts.
Petra Cortright is an Internet artist born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California.
Currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.
Has resided in New York City, Portland, Oregon, Toyko, Japan and Berlin, Germany.
She has studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
She is a member of the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club, Loshadka Internet Surfing Club and Computers Club.
She has exhibited internationally in galleries including the New Museum and Spencer Brownstone in New York,
The Sundance Film International Film Festival, Artnews Projects in Berlin, Germany, Preteen Gallery in Mexico City,
Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan, Italy and at the Internet Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
I'm Ryder Ripps, best known for creating the real-time image sharing site, dump.fm as well as Internet Archaeology, an online gallery of earlier internet art. My work addresses the ways in which digital ephemera online effects culture, society and the world beyond the internet. I will be discussing how the internet makes us reconsider notions of value, ownership and the purpose of art at large. I will posit that the chief purpose of art on the internet is to build community, define identity and explore curiosities of the "other" in ways that are truly unique to the technology of our times.
