No Internet, No Art

Today it has become increasingly difficult to find a person or an object without some kind of connection to the internet. No Internet, No Art is dedicated to exploring what this situation entails with respect to one cultural field in particular: art. This anthology forms both the culmination and a continuation of a series of public events titled Lunch Bytes – Thinking about Art and Digital Culture, held in Washington, D.C., which invited artists and experts from different fields to discuss their work in relation to this overarching theme.

By opening up the often narrowly-defined discursive field of “post-internet,” artistic practices are examined thematically within the larger context of digital culture. As such, this anthology offers valuable new contributions to the fields of art history, media studies, philosophy, curatorial studies, and design.

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With contributions by:
Philipp Albers, Kari Altmann, Karen Archey, Aram Bartholl, Michael Bell-Smith, David M. Berry, Natalie Bookchin, Andreas Broeckmann, Melanie Bühler, Harry Burke, Adam Cruces, Michel van Dartel, Annet Dekker, Niels van Doorn, Raffael Dörig, Claire L. Evans, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joel Holmberg, Paul Kneale, Katja Kwastek, Monica Lam, Geert Lovink, Pierre Lumineau, m-a-u-s-e-r, Greg Niemeyer, Nicolas Nova, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Christiane Paul, Daniel Pinkas, Domenico Quaranta, Jon Rafman, Rafaël Rozendaal, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jenna Sutela, Douglas Thomas, Mark Tribe, Brad Troemel, UBERMORGEN, Ben Vickers, Bernadette Wegenstein, Peter Weibel, Elvia Wilk.

Edited by Melanie Bühler
Copy edited by Rachel Somers Miles
Designed by Hannes Gloor with Freja Kir

This publication was made possible with the generous support of the george foundation, Winterthur; the Erna and Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Zürich and the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa.

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BIOGRAPHY

Melanie Bühler is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Prior to this, she has worked as an independent curator. As the founder and curator of Lunch Bytes (2011-2015)  — a project on digital art and culture including talks, discussions and an online platform – she collaborated with institutions such as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; ICA, London; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. among others. The exhibition project that followed was Inflected Objects at Future Gallery Berlin, De Hallen Haarlem (both 2016), and Swiss Institute Milano (2015). Her exhibition Photography Today: Private Public Relations (2017) is currently on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. Her writings have appeared in various exhibition catalogues, publications and magazines.