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Currently on display at the New Museum, for ”NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” are two rarely seen pieces of net art history:

The login screen of The Thing BBS, and Peter Halley’s SUPERDREAM MUTATION, one of the first digital works of contemporary art to be sold via internet.

Paper Rad: The Year in Faces

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A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web on experiments which take the familiar animated GIF format and take it out of its 2D origins.

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Paper Rad Facemaker

“Perhaps due to their quality and size, frame-grab GIFs have necessarily abstracted authorship. They are deployed in variable contexts, as reactions, illustrations, or expressions. Art GIFs, on the other hand, are circulated to be admired. Their authorship is also more consistently policed, as their authors demand credit for their work.”