Link Editions + PAF, Olomouc: #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation Now Available on our shelves

The Link Art Center is proud to announce the release of the English version of the anthology #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation, edited by Marie Meixnerová. The book, co-published with PAF, Olomouc, is available as a cheap, black and white paperback (*), a color edition and a free download pdf.

– BUY ON LULU.COM (Black and White, 30% OFF, 7,18 €)

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What is Net art? Does its name refer to the medium it uses? Is it the art of the Netizens, the inhabitants of the internet? Is it an art movement or an art form? This book aims to provide a starting point in the search for answers to these and similar questions concerning the existence of Internet art.

Edited by Marie Meixnerová, a Czech curator and scholar, #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation approaches Internet art as a developing art form, through five thematic sections that map the “chronological” stages of this development. Featured authors include Katarína Rusnáková, Dieter Daniels, Marie Meixnerová, Domenico Quaranta, Natalie Bookchin, Alexei Shulgin, Piotr Czerski, Brad Troemel, Artie Vierkant, Ben Vickers, Jennifer Chan, Gene McHugh, Gunther Reisinger, Matěj Strnad, Lumír Nykl.

For those who know little about it, this anthology can serve as an introduction to this specific area of Twentieth and Twenty-first century art; to the expert reader, it offers new and as yet unpublished information, and hopefully a new perspective on the phenomenon of Internet art.

According to Domenico Quaranta: “#mm net art is an anthology edited and filtered from a very specific node in the network. This is exactly what makes it so precious: in a networked world in which all information seems to be available in the same form, at the same speed and on the same screens, your point of access is what actually shapes your point of view; and looking through another’s point of view is what allows you to think outside your own box, pardon, bubble.”

Marie Meixnerová (Edited by), #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation, Link Editions + PAF, Brescia 2019. Soft cover, 220 pages, available in Black and White (9788087662236) and Color (9788087662243)

* Because of its meaning closely dependent on the use of colors, the text Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook  by Brad Troemel, Artie Vierkant, Ben Vickers is available only in the color version of the publication and in the downloadable PDF. So, if you buy the black & white edition, make sure you download the free ebook!