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artport: A History of Internet Art
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Whitney's artport platform, this show gathers over 100 commissioned net-art works charting the evolution of internet art from 2001 to 2024.
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Preview: written before the show opened
In the middle of the sixth floor, four screens stand in a rectangle. From 2009 to 2024, artists took over whitney.org for ten to thirty seconds at every New York sunrise and sunset, and 18 of those takeovers play here in sequence, with the hourly On the Hour pieces that followed them.
You walk around them through a floor laid out like floating browser windows. All 30 artport Commissions are here, some rebuilt as installations, from code works by Golan Levin and Casey Reas to AI-driven projects by Morehshin Allahyari. The Gate Pages of 2001 to 2006 were splash pages, the intro screens the early web made you sit through before Skip Intro, and here they are the art.
The show also runs online, where all 57 Gate Pages live. Admission is $30, free for visitors 25 and under and on Fridays from 5 to 10pm. The Whitney is closed Tuesdays and recommends booking ahead.
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Over 100 net-art works commissioned for the Whitney's artport platform, charting internet art from 2001 to 2024 for the platform's 25th anniversary. The platform is older than most of the apps on your phone.
Look for
The four-screen sunrise and sunset ring
At the centre of the floor, 18 Sunrise/Sunset takeovers of whitney.org play on the east and west screens, and On the Hour works by Peter Burr, Maya Man and Frank WANG Yefeng on the north and south.
Every artport Commission since 2001
All 30 Commissions, grouped by topic, run from Golan Levin's and Casey Reas's code works to game worlds and AI-driven pieces, some rebuilt as gallery installations.
The Gate Pages
Standalone projects from the splash screens artists made monthly from 2001 to 2006, by Tina LaPorta, Mark Napier, Keith + Mendi Obadike and others, from the web before social media.
Operator's Human Unreadable Act III
The world premiere of the live finale to a generative choreography piece Operator has staged in acts since 2023, in the Hess Family Theater on November 19, 21 and 22.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
- Teenagers
With kids
Free for visitors 25 and under, so only adults pay. The works are on screens and include game environments and virtual worlds.
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Image credits
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- artport: A History of Internet ArtImage courtesy New Information
- Yoshitomo NaraCourtesy of David Zwirner
- Jem Perucchini: SospiroCourtesy the artist and Corvi-Mora, London
- Whitney Museum of American ArtBeyond My Ken, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- David ZwirnerCourtesy David Zwirner
- Hauser & WirthJim.henderson, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dia ChelseaFound5dollar, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pace GalleryPace Gallery