This book is about how in the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squatting. Untethered from profit motives, these artists and activists aimed to create a decentralized tool that would democratize culture and promote open and free exchange of information.
Amanda Wasielewski is a researcher in Art History at Stockholm University. She is the author of Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers (2018) and has taught social media and internet studies at the University of Amsterdam, architectural history at the Spitzer School of Architecture, and modern art history at Lehman College in New York.
Innehållsförteckning
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER 1: CRACKING THE CITY, CHAPTER 2: CRACKING PAINTIN, CHAPTER 3: CRACKING THE ETHER, CHAPTER 4: PASSAGEWAYS, CONCLUSION: The Digital City, PRIMARY AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX