Lunch Bytes was initiated in 2011 by Melanie Bühler as a series of lunchtime events discussing art and cultural shifts influenced by the digital sphere. Taking place in several locations in the US ...
“No Internet, No Art — A Lunch Bytes Anthology”, marks the first publishing adventure of Lunch Bytes providing a general overview of the event series, as well as presenting some important topics that have shaped the crossover between art and internet in the past few years.
Edited by Melanie Bühler
Copy edited by Rachel Somers Miles
Designed by Hannes Gloor with Freja Kir
Published by Onomatope
416 pages/ softcover
165 x 240 mm / 6,5 x 9,5 inches
64 pages full color
Since the rise of the popular internet the digital has become omnipresent in our lives and, hence, actively shapes the aestehtics of contemporary art and its modus of operation. No Internet, No Art is dedicated to exploring what this situation entails. With contributions by Kari Altmann, Aram Bartholl, Adam Cruces, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jon Rafman, and others. The publication has been released recently and is available here.
On the occasion of the publication of No Internet, No Art. A Lunch Bytes Anthology, this discussion on hype-cycles, post-internet and how the digital became fashionable, examines how art and digital culture have changed over the past years. On the panel in Washington were: Karen Archey, Adam Cruces and Vivien Trommer.
Yuri Pattison – Politicised Landscapes; Some Thoughts on Uses and Representations of Physical Space in relation to the Network
Politicised Landscapes; Some Thoughts on Uses and Representations of Physical Space in relation to the Network
The widespread usage of networked technology has raised new challenges to traditional values relating to physicality and location such as borders, government, commerce and intellectual property. Online movements and communities have emerged promoting and protecting a new set of cultural values that have developed through usage of this networked technology, and questioning the status quo.
Yuri Pattison looks at the aesthetics of opposition within digital space and the humanising of this space through the creation of new narratives and fictions. With reference to research relating to his recent body of work he discusses the politicised aesthetics of websites and service providers the Pirate Bay, the Silk Road, CyberBunker, Bahnhof AB & Sealand's HavenCo, amongst others as a means of reclaiming, questioning, branding and owning digital space. Pattison attempts to dissect these aesthetics in relation to both their appropriation and referencing of the historical, physical and architectural but also in relation to the new context and ecology they belong to – looking at both the representations of physical space in the 'virtual' and the effects of this networked discourse in the physical.
Yuri Pattison (*1986, Dublin) lives and works in London and Berlin. His recent solo exhibitions include Free Traveller, Cell Projects, London (2014); Colocation, Time Displacement, Minibar, Stockholm, Sweden (2014); and Polymer Placeholder Pin Drop, Project/Number, London, UK (2012).
Image: Space Studios
Sources: Lunch Bytes & Post Digital Cultures programme
Yuri Pattison is online too
I am very much looking forward to the first Lunch Bytes event in Dublin that will take place tomorrow at IMMA as a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut and IMMA.
Lunch Bytes is a series of events dedicated to art and digital culture. I initially conceptualized this format of public discussions for the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC and Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC.…
