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title: Notes on the New Wave of Net Art
slug: notes-on-the-new-wave-of-net-art
channel: thought
publishedAt: 2022-04-20
excerpt: For the art world, last wave of net art died as "post-internet art" in the mid-aughts & has laid dead, largely killed by an oppressive wave of woke politics on art, a censorious entryism inherently intolerant of the actual internet's anarchist heart. !
author: Charlotte Fang
tags:
  - Essay
  - Net Art
canonical: https://remilia.org/blog/thought/notes-on-the-new-wave-of-net-art
---

For the art world, last wave of net art died as "post-internet art" in the mid-aughts & has laid dead, largely killed by an oppressive wave of woke politics on art, a censorious entryism inherently intolerant of the actual internet's anarchist heart.

!["Bloody Amalia Ulman", Charlotte Fang (2021)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8x9419lh/production/0f8cda4069d73a870cb8612c18f294c96c6e9110-1386x2048.png?auto=format ""Bloody Amalia Ulman", Charlotte Fang (2021)")

"Bloody Amalia Ulman", Charlotte Fang (2021)

While the art world banned itself from the upstream of all contemporary culture, a new generation of truly online outsider artists (& insider artists covertly anon) came-of-age in era where the Wired has already swallowed the Real, with hyperreality taken prominence over reality.

Thousands now spend their lives online actively developing elaborate experimental practices, a hundred petite avant-garde's in the heavily accelerated cultural space of the web, a mass movement of extremely creative artmaking—with the dreadfully boring art world totally oblivious.

Art died when it killed net art, but net art never died. The pendulum always swings back; it just takes one dedicated group or a few inspired individuals to light up a percolating zeitgeist and blow open the floodgates on any major cultural shift.

We're here to try.

![Illustration for Notes on the New Wave of Net Art](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8x9419lh/production/eaa54fc0aa6d35a2c23d2c2a450617d986ab5d2c-990x2048.png?auto=format)