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@fellowshiptrust: The WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! (WWW!) exhibit closed last night in NY ❤️🔥
The exhibition brought together twenty artists and thirty years of art made for the browser, presented with
@artxcode_io and
@rhizome, and curated by
@bennavkim @benoit_tokyo_ of LAN Party with Sofia Garcia of ARTXCODE.
Congratulations to the artists, and to every collector who added one of these works to their collection. What's unusual about collecting a website is that nothing disappears, the works stay live at their URLs, public and open, exactly where they've always been.
Thank you to everyone who visited 39 Great Jones Street, and to everyone who supported
@rhizome's work as a memory institution for digital art through the sale.
Here's a round-up of some of the pieces collected ↓
⭑ The Last Acres of the Internet by
@exonemo
Collected by
@WAPSHOP_ETH
The work offers the web's least desirable real estate for sale. While short domain names sell for colossal amounts, like land in Manhattan, exonemo trades in the opposite: the duo registers meaningless domain names of 63 characters, the maximum length permitted, and grows an HTML wilderness generated from random strings on each one. Whoever buys a website owns both the domain and its wilderness, free to build there as they wish.
In contrast to artists raised within today's platform economy, exonemo reflect on what was lost as the web became centralized, asking who holds its territory and what remains for those arriving next.
