Challenges to immateriality:

posthumanist thought and digitality

Melissa Gronlund

Net.art came about in the 1990s, alongside perestroika and the collapse of the Cold War. Manifestoes abounded, proclaiming the new in the time-honoured manner of the historical avant-garde: Haraway’s cyborg manifesto (1983), VNS Matrix’s “A Cybermanifesto for the 21st Century” (1991), and Alexei Shulgin and Natahe Bookchin’s tongue-in-cheek “Introduction to net.art“ manifesto (1997).

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They used the internet to create a field of new forms of pleasure and knowledge, where power and sexuality were stripped of patriarchal norms. Multimedia artworks (CD-RDMs, video games, virtual reality modules) stressed interaction with the user where he or she could experience this new reality.

Publication Details

Type
Book Section
Title
Challenges to immateriality: posthumanist thought and digitality
Author
Melissa Gronlund
Publication
Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, pp. 107–108, Ch. 3, 2017, English
Publisher
Routledge, New York, USA
ISBN
978 1 138 93638 6

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