My Article "Reflections on Conceptual Art and its relation to New Media, a month long conversation at Empyre" is published on noemalab (Italy):

Excerpt:
With this assimilation of criticism in mind, what actually happens with the shift from object to information is that the artist -- in particular the new media artist -- can develop work using a materialist approach following the parameters of conceptualism while not worrying about objecthood -- as theorized by Michael Fried [12] -- and this may be why some people confuse new media practice following a materialist analysis with Conceptualism as understood with the likes of Michael Asher or (to show the complexity of Conceptual art) Adriane Piper. However, the basic criticism that made conceptualism a specific movement of resistance is no longer there; meaning, the object of art is no longer expected to be present, or critiqued in order to call something art, in the realm of new media. This type of criticism itself is institutionalized; it is part of what today is known as "Institutional Critique." This does not mean that there is no such thing as a conceptual online practice that of critiquing the object of art or the institution, only that the criticism of such practice is quite different because the object of art is information (data) that can be presented in various forms. And the resistance of the object based on its co-option by a commercial market is conveniently supported by the rise of the gift economy. [13]

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