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Complementing an eponymous symposium and Kunsthall Trondheim (NO) exhibition, “Attention After Technology” opens on the Tropical Papers platform. IRL exhibition participants biarritzzz, Vivian Caccuri, Shu Lea Cheang, CUSS Group, Kyriaki Goni, and Berenice Olmedo contribute browser-based works exploring shifting attention norms. Femke Herregraven’s Rewild the Wandering Mind (2023, image), for example, quotes literary sources to muse over “how attention evolved into a moralizing and disciplinary force.”

“Not having one theme imposed by a curator but multiple curators contributing their unique concepts and artist selections to the same event was unheard of at the time and remains uncommon today, even after a decade.”
The Wrong Biennale founder David Quiles Guilló, on the “radical inclusiveness” that is at the core of the thriving online (and increasingly hybrid) art show he launched in 2013. “It’s like a costume party, and you decide to let all costumes join in,” Guilló tells Fakewhale. “It surely becomes a great party.”
“The role of the digital exhibition is not to imitate its physical counterpart. Digital art and its exhibitions exist to examine the affordances of their endemic space.”
Ender Gallery curators Sarah Friend, Cat Bluemke, and Jonathan Carroll, reflecting on experimenting with digitally native exhibition spaces. Throughout 2021, Ender Gallery hosted four artist residents, Cat Haines, Simon M. Benedict, Huidi Xiang, and Travess Smalley, to make art on a dedicated Minecraft server.

“New Art City Festival 2022” opens online, on the eponymous virtual exhibition platform. Leaning into its “Architectures of Abundance” subtitle, it bundles digital sculpture, audiovisual experiments, and code poetry from artists including Anna Nazo, Celine Lassus, Grimm, Henrique Fagundes—100 artists across 31 exhibitions. Of note: “Diffracted Sensibilities Artificial Gaze” (hatched within a Royal College of Art course), and the first issue of H1YBRID ART JOURNAL.

Marking the one-year anniversary of New Art City’s domain registration, New Art City Festival opens to celebrate with two dozen trailblazers of the browser-based 3D art and exhibition space. “A prototype grew into a tool, and a tool grew into a community,“ writes the team around Internet artist d0n.xyz. “Since then, more than 40,000 people in 125 countries have visited galleries on New Art City.” The site will add a new show every day through May 26, featuring works by Otrus Extraviadus, Sofia Crespo, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and others.

Drawing from the IDPW online community they’ve marshalled over the years, extremely online artist duo exonemo launches “Art Homepage Fair.” The online exhibition resurrects the bygone webring format, and offers an interface for navigating 100 bespoke websites. Including sites by forevermidi.com, Garry Ing, Lee Tusman, and dozens more, the show is organized around the rallying cry “to express yourself on the internet is not about being constrained by terms and conditions … while growing enslaved to numbers of likes.“

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