In the exclusive Los Angeles launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs, Jeffrey Deitch appears in conversation with Dr. Omar Kholeif, a leading figure in the world of networked culture whose new book explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time.

Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. In this special conversation, Deitch and Kholeif will discuss the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today, and the ways in which this mass medium has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital.

Internet_Art showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future. It will be published by Phaidon on April 26. More information at www.phaidon.com/internetart

‘More than a history of internet art, Kholeif has woven a vivid autobiographical tapestry. In the patterns and cultural shifts of the past three decades, they find the beauty and bravery that marked this era of experimentation.’ – Prof. Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI

‘A deep dive into the moments that have defined art within the digital age.’ – HYPEBEAST

Dr. Omar Kholeif is an author, curator, broadcaster, and the avatar of Dr. O – a polymath who lives in the metaverse. A leading commentator on art and digital culture, Kholeif is the author of dozens of books, which have sold more than 100,000 copies in English alone, curator of over sixty exhibitions, and founder of www.artpost21.com, which supports art and social justice in the age of the ‘meta’ metaverse. Kholeif is the Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.

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