A History of Internet Art
The following material was presented by Zachary Kaplan, editor of Rhizome.org, during Laurel Schwulst’s Interactive Design class at Yale on February 8, 2015.
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Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, Hole in Space (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIJJr6Ldg8
The Thing, BBS organized by Wolfgang Staehle (1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(art_project)
1993 — Eternal September
1994 — Netscape Navigator, GeoCities
Trojan Coffee Cup Cam (1991/1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
Douglas Davis, The World’s First Collaborative Sentence (1994)
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis
Jodi.org (1995)
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
DIA launches online exhibitions platform (?1995)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/56398/timeline.html
1996 — rhizome.com
1996 — Adobe Flash
Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996)
http://www.teleportacia.org/war/
mouchette.org (1996)
http://mouchette.org
1997 — Carnivore; FBI surveillance tool for networks
Alexei Shulgin, Form Art (1997)
http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
Heath Bunting, Read Me (1998)
http://www.irational.org/_readme.html
Mark Napier, Riot (1999)
http://potatoland.org/riot/
1999 — Napster; high-speed cable internet affordability
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Bust Down the Door (2000)
http://archive.rhizome.org/splash/Y-H_Chang/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOOR.html
Eva and Franco Mattes, Life Sharing (2000-2003)
http://0100101110101101.org/life-sharing/
1999-2001 — Dot com bubble bursting
June 26, 2000: Google becomes the most popular search engine
August 2000 — deviantart.com
October 2001 — Patriot Act
2001 — Bit Torrent
Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds (2002)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/supermarioclouds/
2002 — Friendster
Whitney Museum Artport (Launched 2002)
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport
2003 — MySpace; del.icio.us; Second Life
2004 — The Facebook
2005 — Google Reader
Thomson and Craighead, Beacon (2005)
http://www.automatedbeacon.net
2006 — Twitter / Modern Google Maps
Cory Arcangel, Gif (2006)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2006-019-handmadegif
VVORK, 2006-2012 [BERLIN]
http://www.vvork.com
Nasty Nets surf club (2006)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53981/nastynets.com
Spirit Surfers surf club (2008)
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery
Cory Arcangel, Sans Comic (2008)
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2008-079-sans-comic
2007 — Guthrie Lonergan’s Hackers vs. Defaults
http://guthguth.blogspot.com/2007/01/hacking-defaults-hacking-nintendo.html
Petra Cortright, VVEBCAM (2007)
http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/53474/vvebcam.html
June 6, 2007 — the iPhone is released
2008 — Tumblr
JODI, GEO GOO (2008)
http://geogoo.net
November 2, 2008 — Contemporary Art Daily
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com
The Jogging, founded 2009 (Brad Troemel, Lauren Christensen) [CHICAGO]
http://thejogging.tumblr.com
Kari Altmann, Ruins (2009-)
http://r-u-ins.org
October 2010 — Instagram
Ryder Ripps’s DUMP FM (2010)
http://dump.fm
Oliver Laric, versions (2010)
http://oliverlaric.com/versions.htm
December, 2011 — Zynga IPO
July 2011 — Snapchat
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age, 2011
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com
May 2013 — Edward Snowden leaks classified documents about bulk data collection to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
Amalia Ulman, Excellences and Perfections (2014)
http://webenact.rhizome.org/excellences-and-perfections