#postperspective

Where do we go from here, and how might new practices bridge this conceptual shortfall? ‘In the near future we’ll reach a point when the internet is no less ubiquitous, but the market has moved on,’ says Coburn. ‘The market will endorse new stylistic templates, potentially freeing “Post-Internet” from its now primarily commercial associations. In other words, we may see the emergence of other types of practices that can be meaningfully contextualized as Post-Internet.

The twentieth century took it upon itself to break down our relationship with language and to violently deconstruct the image. Even as our web literacy increases, our capacity to understand its increasing ubiquity remains at the level of the ‘user’, the consumer of a seemingly hermetic abstraction. Art might like to talk about what it feels like to live through social media, but by and large artists find themselves complicit like everyone else; they are always 12 steps behind the tech companies; the parameters of their freedom are established elsewhere.