Installation shot from ?Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today? at the ICA/Boston, 2018: ?Imagination, Dead Imagine? (1991) by Judith Barry
We live in interesting times ? so interesting, in fact, that not only are artists using ever-newer technologies and digital tools, but we are witnessing a whole new generation emerging: artists who were born, live and create with and on the internet. Anny Shaw investigates
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For several years now, neuroscientists have been arguing that the internet is remapping our brains, rewiring our neural connections ? for better or worse. Now it appears that the internet is having a profound effect on artistic practice, with artists creating perpetual iterations of works or keeping projects in continual development, like the tabs left running in your web browser. ?There?s a freedom artists have now, which is perhaps a symptom of how the internet impacts on people?s thinking. There?s never a next stage or a finished version; the possibilities are endless,? says Elizabeth Neilson, the director of London?s Zabludowicz Collection.
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Neilson points to the artists in the collection who use virtual reality (VR), such as the Canadian artist and film-maker Jon Rafman, who continues to work on his animated film Dream Journal that he began in 2015, and the US artist Paul McCarthy, who has created 15 versions of C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Ev...