Exhibitions, Research, Criticism, Commentary
A chronology of 3,585 references across art, science, technology, and culture
LI-MA Amsterdam and the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) celebrate World Digital Preservation Day with a new video tutorial series on safeguarding artworks created with the iconic Commodore Amiga computer. “Who Cares for Amiga Artworks?” builds on LI-MA’s AMIGA NU research initiative and guides media art professionals and conservators through the process of accessing and reformatting Amiga files. The first lesson: How to turn Amiga animations into timeless GIFs.
To commemorate the preservation of its trillionth webpage, the Internet Archive partnered with San Francisco arts and technology non-profit Gray Area to commission a series of original net.art works that explore what it means to create and access culture online. Ten digital artists, including Chia Amisola, Spencer Chang, Sarah Friend, and Rodell Warner, tapped deep into the Archive’s vast collections to create bespoke web experiences that “reflect on themes of memory and the human stories embedded within preserved data.”
In “Stuck? Click Here,” an Aksioma online exhibition via KUNSTSURFER, Dutch artist Lotte Louise de Jong replaces the web ads in your browser with slowed down “stuck” clips, a niche fetish genre where female bodies are wedged into sofas, office chairs or washing machines. A metaphor for our entrapment in digital platforms, de Jong’s intervention “reminds us that ‘stuck’ is no longer just a fetish but a default mode of existence online,” writes curator Hsiang-Yun Huang.
Following the release of Landscapes (2025), a GIF collection of 90 ethereal topographies, Canadian artist Nicolas Sassoon delves into his RGB Studies series on X. Decoding 15 years of experimentation with moiré techniques and the three primary colours that make up all digital images, Sassoon shares dithering secrets, references, and pivotal moments like the 2015 Vancouver Art Gallery show “Beyond the Trees” with Sara Ludy and Sylvain Sailly.
“An unrecognized pop art masterpiece, a proto-GIF, a sarcastic, feminist work, an affirmation of autonomy, and a slap in the face as much to the conservative, technophobic academy as to the technofetishist, male-dominated world of technology.”
Lorna Mills’ solo exhibition “The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common Part 1” opens online at distant.gallery, populating your browser canvas with dozens of Mill’s eccentric GIFs. Hosted in collaboration with TRANSFER gallery, LA-based curator Kelani Nichole’s digital art imprint and long-time Mills representative, the show also serves as an in-browser gathering for net art enthusiasts: “COME TO THE OPENING,” the Canadian media artist tweeted to her followers. “BE A GIF. BE A FUCKING GIF.”
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