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Is net art (or web art, or even internet art), following in the footsteps of its pioneers, still alive? Or, more directly, how does artistic creation thrive in opposition to algorithms controlled by big tech companies? It’s clear that as long as the Internet exists – and its end has already been announced –  there will always be an artist who keeps alive the spirit of the early creators of art “for” and “by” the World Wide Web.This production has never ceased to exist, but up until 2020, acknowledging its existence seemed like a nostalgic daydream. After all, net art peaked two decades ago. Oh, let’s reserve the networks for digital commerce and social media, because who needs the utopia of a democratic and free network, right? But, despite our irony: during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was forced to rediscover the web as an Art space, reviving a production that had not been so prominent until then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the pandemic, we have been observing the current dynamics of art production on the Internet: on the one hand, the resilience of historical creations that remain alive, often due to the artists’ own initiatives; on the other hand, a wave of new creations that use the Internet as a medium, under seemingly transient circumstances imposed by a period of social distancing. In this context, under the thought-provoking title “Net art died but is doing well”, we launched an open call to artists from all over the world to join an online pavilion for The Wrong Bienniale 2023\/24. The call was specifically open to recent works created since 2021. As a result, we now have one of the most extensive recent exhibitions dedicated to art on the Internet, with over 50 artworks from different countries. While it’s a cross-section of an incredibly diverse production, the sheer number of pieces allows us to say that artists are still creating work specifically for the web in a meaningful way today. In other words, net art is alive and well. Long live to the web artists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PORTUGU\u00caS BRASILEIRO
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A net art (ou web arte, ou ainda, internet art), aos moldes dos pioneiros desta linguagem, ainda vive? Ou mais diretamente, como vive a cria\u00e7\u00e3o art\u00edstica na contram\u00e3o dos algoritmos controlados pelas bigtechs<\/em>? \u00c9 claro que enquanto houver Internet \u2013 e seu fim anuncia-se \u2013 sempre existir\u00e1 algum artista honrando o esp\u00edrito dos primeiros criadores da produ\u00e7\u00e3o de arte \u201cpara\u201d e \u201cpela\u201d World Wide Web<\/em>. Esta produ\u00e7\u00e3o nunca deixou de existir efetivamente, mas at\u00e9 2020, apontar a sua exist\u00eancia soava como um devaneio nost\u00e1lgico, afinal, a net art alcan\u00e7ou seu \u00e1pice a duas d\u00e9cadas atr\u00e1s. Ora, deixemos as redes para o com\u00e9rcio digital e as redes sociais, afinal, para que serve a utopia de uma rede democr\u00e1tica e livre, n\u00e3o \u00e9? Mas, deixando nossa ironia de lado: o mundo sob a Pandemia de COVID-19 foi for\u00e7ado a redescobrir a rede como espa\u00e7o de arte e, por extens\u00e3o, acabou revigorando uma produ\u00e7\u00e3o at\u00e9 ent\u00e3o distante dos circuitos de arte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desde ent\u00e3o, a partir da Pandemia, temos acompanhado as din\u00e2micas presentes das produ\u00e7\u00f5es de arte para a Internet: de um lado, a resili\u00eancia de cria\u00e7\u00f5es hist\u00f3ricas que permanecem vivas, muitas vezes por iniciativa dos pr\u00f3prios artistas; de outro lado, um movimento de novas cria\u00e7\u00f5es que passam a utilizar a Internet como suporte, em circunst\u00e2ncias aparentemente transit\u00f3rias, diante das condicionantes de um per\u00edodo de distanciamento social. Diante desse contexto, lan\u00e7amos uma chamada a artistas de todo o mundo sob o t\u00edtulo-provoca\u00e7\u00e3o A net art morreu mas passa bem<\/em>, a dar forma a um pavilh\u00e3o online para a The Wrong Biennale 2023\/24. A chamada foi aberta especialmente a trabalhos recentes, criados a partir de 2021. Como resultado, temos uma das maiores exibi\u00e7\u00f5es recentes dedicadas a arte para a Internet, reunindo mais de 50 trabalhos de diferentes pa\u00edses; mesmo sendo um recorte de uma produ\u00e7\u00e3o bastante ecl\u00e9tica, o volume de obras nos permite dizer que artistas continuam criando obras especialmente para a rede de forma significativa, ainda hoje; em outras palavras: a net art continua em plena vitalidade. Vida longa aos \u00edmpetos dos artistas da rede!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabio FON and Soraya Braz, curators.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CURATORS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FABIO FON (Brazil)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabio FON (F\u00e1bio Oliveira Nunes) is a Brazilian artist-researcher focused on contemporary languages, working on experimental art, visual poetics and art-technology. He holds  Arts PhD from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, a post-doctorate in Arts from the Institute of Arts of Unesp, a Master in Multimedia (Multimedia) at UNICAMP and Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNESP. He is the author of the books \u201cCTRL+ART+DEL: dist\u00farbios em arte e tecnologia\u201d (Ed. Perspectiva, 2010) and \u201cMentira de artista: arte (e tecnologia) que nos engana para repensarmos o mundo\u201d (Cosmogonias El\u00e9tricas, 2016) . He is currently a researcher linked to Grupo cAt: science \/ ARTE \/ technology at UNESP, S\u00e3o Paulo. http:\/\/www.fabiofon.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SORAYA BRAZ (Brazil)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soraya Braz is a Brazilian artist and researcher, graduated in Arts from S\u00e3o Paulo University (USP) and Master of Visual Arts from S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP). Her creations are visual poetry, digital art, installations and computer graphics. Took part in exhibitions such as FILE, FILE PAI, MOBILEFEST, Mostra SESC de Artes, FACTORS, Art\u00e9ria 40 anos, etc. She works in partnership with the artist Fabio FON with whom produced Roaming (2007), Grampo (2007), CAPTAS (2010), Via Invis\u00edvel (2011), Deliberator (2014), and Delet\u00e9rio (2021). https:\/\/fabiofon.com\/bio-soraya-braz\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ARTISTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adele Jarrar
Albena Baeva
Anastasia Koroleva
Andres Manniste
Andrey Koens
Annina R\u00fcst
Antoni Hidalgo Hidalgo
Ben Grosser
Blanche the vidiot
Chelsea Thompto
Coletivo Entre N\u00f3s
Colin Black, Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga and Jaka \u017deleznikar
Cristiane Duarte, Rolf Simos and Rosangella Leote
Danilo dos Santos
DJ Malinowski
Elo\u00edsa Nieto
Esteparia
Everest Pipkin
Flavio Siqueira
Gabriel Pessoto and Nicole Kouts
Gretchen Andrew
Gustavo Romano
Henrique Fagundes
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JaZoN Frings
Jim Andrews
John-Robin Bold
J\u00falia Sodr\u00e9
J\u00fcrgen Trautwein and Silvia Nonnenmacher
Karen Eliot
Koundinya Dhulipalla
Larissa Campello
Leonardo Souza
Lima Charlie Art Collective
Lindsey Arturo
Maria Sucar
Mercia de Assis Albuquerque
Michalis Zacharias
Niklas Wallenborg
Noah Travis Phillips
Onty
Pedro Ferreira
Polina Enuvesta
Rachelmauricio Castro
Sandrine Deumier
Suzete Venturelli
Tansy Xiao
Vera Sebert
Vin\u00edcius Ladivez
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PRESS KIT: NET ART DIED BUT IS DOING WELL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT THE WRONG BIENNALE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wrong Biennale is an art driven, innovative and collaborative global event, online and offline, aiming to nurture digital culture, bringing together curators, artists and institutions, open to participation and awarded with SOIS Cultura 2o19 and an honorific mention at S+T+ARTS 2o2o. Celebrating digital art culture since its first edition in 2o13, more than 8ooo artists and curators from all over the world have officially participated at The Wrong Biennale. https:\/\/www.thewrong.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT WEB ARTE NO BRASIL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web arte no Brasil (Web Art in Brazil) is an independent initiative led by Fabio FON since 2000, which was born with the purpose of promoting and analyzing the production of Brazilian artists on the Internet. Currently, WAB is one of the few Brazilian websites specifically dedicated to internet art, providing a compilation of websites, scientific articles, and videos aimed at new audiences.More: https:\/\/www.fabiofon.com\/webartenobrasil. <\/a>(Brazilian Portuguese only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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