netart Archives - Do Not Destroy

747483840922173440

“We now call it the community industry. The history of the web went as follows: at first it was military, then education and now commerce oriented. What are the possibilities of artists in the confrontation with these three systems? All of the time you can notice the anti-authoritarian spirit that changes flavour. At one stage it is simply pacifist. At another time, when it comes to education, it deals with intellectual independence. As Twain once said: “I’ve never let my school interfere with my education”.

Right now, we live in a corporate atmosphere. The dominant frame in the artistic field is decorative art, but I cannot waste my time discussing it. In new media art, the radical and experimental artists always confront the dominant frame. And right now, it is the community industry that provides the most useful grip that the corporate world can possibly have on the online population. You have all these various dimensions of self-‐disclosure, and when you disclose things about yourself you share parts of your privacy that feed the system. And I think this is a good topic for artists. I am currently working on a project with Heath Bunting. I think this is a good topic because people are blind, they behave as sheep.” — Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić
Deep ASCII
2021
Token ID: 0
Contract Address: 0x2C3c…dfFc
Non-Fungible Token: ERC-1155
MP4: 46.1 MB (48,440,942 bytes), 742x1034px, 00:01:19
From the 1998 full length video Deep ASCII, running time 59 minutes
Estimate
£40,000 – 50,000

745762229936422912

An Audience with Miao Ying, the Artist Laughing in the Face of China’s Authorities

“The work always starts with a digital core, which relates to a communist ideology of starting with an abstract vision.” — Miao Ying

680819187041599488

“In
social media’s early heyday—the time of Occupy and the Arab Spring—big
tech was heralded in the mainstream as a democratizing force, but it’s
become clear that these commercial platforms aren’t serving the public
good. In fact, these platforms consolidate the worst extremes of
neoliberal ideology. While users are turned into products, the ruling
class becomes increasingly powerful and unaccountable to the people.

Digital
infrastructure offers no true space for dissent when it is privately
owned. Online activism only serves to direct atomized attention to
advertisers. This process mirrors the shift of public wealth to private
hands, whereby what were once shared resources (e.g. libraries) become
data-optimized, privatized operations. Work and life are merged entirely
and solidarity disappears behind corporate smokescreens. Underneath the
technophilic rhetoric of progress lies a race for information,
financial, and labor control that ensures growth is the domain of only
the rich and the few.”

DIS