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Internet_Art:

From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs

by Dr. Omar Kholeif

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time
Since the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. Internet_Art is an unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area, from 1989 to today.
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Internet_Art showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam JunePaik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang.

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‘Informative and fast-moving’
– Publishers Weekly
‘A deep dive into the moments that have defined art within the digital age.’
‍– HYPEBEAST

Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future.

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“Part memoir, part social history, Internet_Art is akin to a piece of travel writing through the internet, meeting a host of artists who challenge and make visible what the internet is, or could be.”
– Khalid Abdalla, actor,activist and filmmaker
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Dr. Omar Kholeif is an author, curator, broadcaster, and the avatar of Dr. O – a polymath who lives in the metaverse. A leading commentator on art and digital culture, Kholeif is the author of dozens of books, which have sold more than 100,000 copies in English alone, curator of over sixty exhibitions, and founder of www.artPost21.com, which supports art and social justice in the age of the ‘meta’ metaverse. Kholeif is the Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.

On the artPost21 Podcast, Kholeif takes listeners on a series of adventures through today’s contorted world of art and culture. Each episode invites listeners to a collective listening session, with luminaries in art, film, music, and poetry dropping in.
Meet Dr. Omar Kholeif – the person spearheading the conversation on art and digital culture
In the first part of our interview with the author of Internet_Art we learn how the curator has defined networked culture over the last 30 years in their own, highly personal, way
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Dr. Omar Kholeif: ‘I wrote pretty much every chapter of Internet_Art by hand - using a fountain pen!’
How a standing desk, a Rachmaninoff concerto, and the motivation of a film producer friend helped Omar Kholeif create the defining book on visual networked culture
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Internet_Art:

From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs

by Dr. Omar Kholeif

$39.95
$59.95
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$49.95
€34.95
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Image credits:
Trevor Paglen, Orbital Reflector, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Nevada Museum of Art. Digital rendering. 
Lynn Hershman Leeson, CybeRoberta, 1994. Courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York City, and Claudia Altman-Siegel Gallery, San Francisco.
Author portrait by Reem Sawan
Heather Phillipson, RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach, 2021. Photo: Tate. Courtesy the artist. © Heather Phillipson.
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