postinternet

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Etymology

post- +‎ internet. As specific term to describe artistic activity from mid-2000s, later popularized by Gene McHugh in a blog and book of the same name.

Noun

postinternet (uncountable)

  1. (often attributive) Society and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet, especially in arts and criticism.
    • 2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      The term that’s being used is Post-Internet Art — not “post” in the sense that the internet is over, but that it’s ubiquitous. In the post-internet era, the internet is simply assumed.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:postinternet.

References

  1. ^ Michael Connor (2013 November 1) “What's Postinternet Got to do with Net Art?”, in Rhizome:
    The reference normally given for the first use of the term postinternet is a 2008 interview, but Olson remembers using it as part of a 2006 panel organized by Rhizome. […] The term has since evolved considerably, sprouting an array of differing use cases that would take considerable effort to catalog in full. As a result, today one often hears the criticism that "postinternet" is a vague neologism, but for Olson, it had a specific meaning, referring to a mode of artistic activity drawing on raw materials and ideas found or developed online.
  2. ^ Gene McHugh (2011) Post Internet: Notes on the Internet and Art, →ISBN

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