Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it MattersSince the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication. What started as fun soon became currency, something vital to finding friends, work, and love. Then, as meatspace job security eroded, online creativity became work itself. Now an internet presence is no longer optional, platforms increasingly

Chang Wei ponders the dialectical relationship between technology application and control as she looks at contemporary art that consciously reflects the system of surveillance

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From the attitude of investigators to the difficulties retrieving time-limited security camera footage

The publication features a foreword by CCS Bard Director of Graduate Programs and Chief Curator

Gainsaying the fact that animality has traditionally been consigned to non-historical nature

Naomi’s surgical work and understandings

It aims to change institutional culture to recognise and champion under-represented roles

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Overriding the common assumption that success equals longevity

How can we activate radical visions and imaginations of alternative

imaginative and ordinary

magnifying and focusing on the minute details for a more intimate view of the traces of self that were left behind