2024/01/24

Off-Grid Internet Land Art: Andrew Benson Ponders Platform Escapism

“Creating a single artwork on a small website at this point is a kind of Land Art. To view it you have to leave the urban centers of the feed and go to some off-grid locale. Nobody is coming to visit, but everyone says they want to.”
– American software artist Andrew Benson, on the platform consolidation of the internet—and escaping it. “Out there you can have more freedom, the access to raw material is abundant, and it feels better to feel like you made something real,” Benson muses. “But if you aren’t posting pics [on social media], does it even matter?”
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