AFK: Texts on Artists 2011 - 2016 [electronic resource].

Link Editions 2016

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AFK – an acronym for “away of keyboard” widely used online – is an anthology of texts written for catalogues and exhibition brochures along the last five years, featuring twelve texts about eleven artists and an artist duo: Rosa Menkman, Jon Rafman, Gazira Babeli, Martin Kohout, Maurizio Cattelan, Enrico Boccioletti, Constant Dullaart, Jill Magid, Aram Bartholl, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Evan Roth and Addie Wagenknecht. In different ways, these artists experienced the impact of digital means of production and dissemination, they experimented with them, they thought about them, and all this is reflected in their work. As Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the Pirate Bay, they think the internet is real, and they spend a lot of time in this real space of life, communication, love, hate, surveillance, sharing, and copying. Most of the works discussed here are made to be experienced in a brick and mortar space, away of keyboard; but reflect the current way of living, communicating, loving, hating, spying, sharing, copying, on and away of keyboard.
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Technology and the arts
Art criticism
Computer art
Twenty-first century in art
Digital media
Art and the Internet
New media art

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Domenico Quaranta
Rosa Menkman
Jon Rafman
Gazira Babeli
Martin Kohout
Maurizio Cattelan
Enrico Boccioletti
Constant Dullaart
Jill Magid
Aram Bartholl
Emilie Brout
Maxime Marion
Evan Roth
Addie Wagenknecht