“Nicholas O’Brien is a net-based artist, curator, and writer whose research primarily revoles around the exploration of digital self, language, and the relevance of landscape studies within network culture. His multi-disciplined practice encompasses experimental interviews, performance based blogs, 3D animation, writing editorial columns on contemporary art, and micro-lectures on popular cultural phenomenon that borrow from traditional cinematic and literary […]

Body By Body at Important Projects Essay by Nicholas O’Brien. After downloading source material from mediafire, listening to a motivational mp3, seeing installation pictures, and playing in an interactive 3D recreation of their current exhibition at Important Projects in Oakland, it seems no surprise to me that Body by Body were “[attempting] to ‘smear’ the exhibition out over […]

Petra Cortright Work from So Wet @ Preteen. “SANTA BARBARA´S  ONSHORE BREEZE, WARM WINTERS AND COOL SUMMERS, POST-DUCHAMPIAN, POST-FORDIST, POST-CONCEPTUALIST AND POST-INTERNET ARTISTIC PRACTICES, SURREALISM, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM AND WET DREAMS SHAPE ‘NIGHT HEAT’, THIS NEW SERIES OF DIGITAL LANDSCAPES BY PETRA CORTRIGHT. UNUSUAL TO HER PREVIOUS ONLINE WORKS -MOSTLY WEBCAM VIDEOS- NOW THE ARTIST EXPLORES OFFLINE TERRITORIES TAKING TIME TO […]

Jon Rafman and Tabor Robak Work from BNJP.exe. “After a rough week at work you contact an acquaintance who can get you Rhodopas M60A for a good price. The acquaintance gives you an eight-digit phone number that connects you to the shrill baud of a fax machine. Within a quarter-hour your phone rings, a low-toned […]