Abstract
This article is part one of two of an analysis of the Jean Baudrillard's essay, "A Conjuration of Imbeciles". This essay compares the idea of art as a metaphor for French politics and the “uselessness” of contemporary art. A sense of postmodernism is drawn from that comparison and relates to contemporary art shared on the World Wide Web. Inevitable messages and meaning found in art will change, but economics and distribution continues to ground the economy on a global scale. Therefore, contemporary art represented on the web actively dates the practice of art, and the value of the practice is predicted to change because art is an impotent cultural form living through art institutions and administrations. The art market and artists on the world wide web will need to accommodate to the hyperreality of the internet by assigning an artificial value to their artwork. One approach towards postmodernism for artists is utilizing websites as their mediums by playing around with web formalism, meaning to deconstruct HTML and hypertext to achieve abstract visuals.
Preservation Process
Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=264.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Sophia Martinez, Spring 2022, ART 104.
Recommended Citation
Stalbaum, Brett
(1997)
"Conjuring Post-Worthlessness: Contemporary Web Art and the Postmodern Context: part 1,"
SWITCH: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/switch/vol7/iss1/2
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