The Broken Timeline (TBT) presents historical exhibition projects that were curated online. Inevitably partial and subjective, TBT burrows back in time to present a lineage of web-based curatorial projects that are too often unseen, neglected or ignored by the mainstream artworlds and their discourses.
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TYPOLOGY:

ORGANISATIONS
Art Centre
Artist
Biennale
Commission
Institutional
Museum

SOCIALS
Instagram
Platform
Social Media
Tumblr

SPACE
Chat Room
Commerce
Exhibition
Festival
Offline
Publishing

Virtual Reality

TOOLS
3D
App
Database
Desktop Tour
Download
Mailing List

INITIATED BY
Artist(s)
Curator(s)
Designer(s)
Institutional
Researcher(s)

1982

• Minitel launches
• Smiley emoticon first used online

1983

• ARPANET (TPC/IP)

1984

• Apple Desk Accessories lanuched as part of Apple Macintosh operating system
• Electronic Mall marketplace launches
• The term “cyberspace” is coined

1985

• NASA Ames VIEW headset

1986

• Public registration starts for Domain Name System of the internet

ART COM ELECTRONIC NETWORK (ACEN)

people.well.com/user/couey/artcom/leonardo91.html
1986–1990 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Carl Loeffler and Ted Truck

ACEN was launched as an ‘electronic gathering place’ for the creation and dissemination of arts projects employing telecommunication. It offered: the publication of Art Com and other newspapers, an electronic bulletin board and mail system, and an electronic exhibition space.

BAD INFORMATION

people.well.com/user/jmalloy/badinfo/bad.html

1986–1990 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Judy Malloy

Begun in 1986, Bad Information was one of the first works of net art. Calling attention to our tendency to accept computer-produced information as true, Bad Information invited WELL users to participate in the creation of a questionable database.

1988

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first deployed

1989

• Release SimCities
• ZIP file format released

1990

• Archie search engine was launched
• HTML
• HTTP protocol
• Linux is created

1991

• AOL for DOS was launched
• Gopher protocol launched
• Sega VR headset developed System
• The first webcam
• The Thing, Bulletin Board on contemporary art was launched
• WWW publicly accessible

1992

• The phrase ‘surfing the internet’ is coined by Jean Armour Polly
• The Virtual Fixtures platform by the United States Air Force

1993

• NCSA releases Mosaic browser

C@C–NAVIGATOR
www.evagrubinger.com/texts/eva-grubinger
(archive)

1993–1997 / 🇩🇪
Curators: Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy

C@C was a prototype system concerned with the production, presentation, documentation and distribution of contemporary art. Artists both created a piece of art and actively developed the context for their work by curating up to three artists of their choice.

ARTNETWEB
artnetweb.com

1993–1997 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy

artnetweb was a network of people and projects investigating new media in the practice of art. It included the PORT, an exhibition of networked digital worlds on the internet and the PORT-MIT listserv to also document the exhibition process.

MOCA.VIRTUAL.MUSEUM
moca.virtual.museum

1993– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Don Archer and Bob Dodson

MOCA was established to promote digital art in its various forms and manifestations, including 3-D rendered art, fractals, enhanced photography, animation, mixed media, computer-painted and -drawn art, etc. The site is host to hundreds of world-class digital artists and thousands of their images, all available for viewing.

1994

• First web banner ad was placed on HotWired
• GeoCities launched
• Julie Martin creates first 'Augmented Reality Theater production', "Dancing in Cyberspace"
• links.net, the first blog, was created by Justin Hall • Netscape launches Netscape Navigator
• QR code system invented by Denso Wave
• Sony released the PlayStation
• The Palace, a programme to access graphical chat room servers was created
• WebMuseum (formerly WebLouvre), was founded. It is one of the earliest examples of a virtual museum
• Yahoo! was founded

ÄDA 'WEB
www.adaweb.com

1994–1998 / 🇺🇸
Curators: John Borthwick and Benjamin Weil

äda 'web was established in the early spring of 1995 with the goal to provide contemporary artists (visual artists, as well as composers, movie directors, architects, choreographers, etc), a station from which they can engage in a dialogue with users of the internet.

PLEXUS: OMNIZONE

https://plexus.org/

1994–1998 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Yu Yeon Kim & Stephen Pusey

OMNIZONE presents a "mapping" of digital culture from individual perspectives. The participants include artists, curators, critics, programmers, research scientists, and other cultural practitioners. Their texts and artworks substantiate a critical view of digital culture and its dynamics and function as maps of digital space.

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum
https://www.lhham.com.sg/

1994– / 🇸🇬
Curator: Lin Hsin Hsin

Notable as the first virtual museum that is a metaphor of a real-world museum, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum was established during the initial expansion of the World Wide Web. It had a live cyber graffiti wall and a search engine.

1995

• Amazon opened as online bookseller
• Apache was released
• Craigslist was started as an email distribution list
• eBay was founded
• ESPN SportsZone first livestreams an event
• Filename extension .mp3 was named and real-time software MP3 player WinPlay3 was released
• Internet Explorer made its debut as Microsoft's first web browser
• Macromedia releases Shockwave Player

• Nintendo’s Virtual Boy portable console released
• The terms "telecommuting" and "telework" become popular in the USA

Hell.com
Hell.com

1995–2009 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Kenneth Aronson

A very private and somewhat mysterious place for Net-artists to hang out and create Web-art, without being directly visible to the grand public. The mission was to build a community/parallel web free from commercialism.

SITO
https://www.sito.org/help/00/00.html

1995–2019 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Ed Stastny

SITO is a site for cooperative, collaborative, and individual art. Here you will find collections of creative work from participants around the globe. In operation since 1993, SITO creates and hosts a number of Internet-based cooperative and collaborative art projects.

Dia Art - Web Projects
http://www.diaart.org/artist_web_projects

1995– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Lynne Cooke & Sarah Tucker

Twenty-five years of commissioning projects for the web.

Hyper-X Online Gallery
http://www.altx.com/hyperx/

1995–2007 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Marisa Olson & Abe Linkoln

The Hyper-X Online gallery exhibits cutting-edge net art, digital narrative, and experiential codework. Home to the first-ever online net art exhibition ("Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace"), Hyper-X continues to investigate the slippery border between exhibition, publication, and performance.

Xcult
http://xcult.org/

1995–2016 / 🇨🇭
Curator: Reinhard Storz

Xcult is a cultural forum on the Internet focussing mainly on Swiss art production and international participation. We began our first activities on the Net in summer 1995, under the address The Thing.ch, and we have published more than 100 projects and authors.

Parallel
https://va.com.au/parallel/x1/index.html

1995 / 🇦🇺
Curators: Virtual Artists & Hewson/Walker

PARALLEL Gallery and Journal presents work from artists and writers who are multi-disciplinary in theory and in practice. Each participant moves between mediums. And so do Virtual Artists and Hewson/Walker, who bring you this project. We wish PARALLEL to be fluid rather than episodic.

1996

• First Browser War, Microsoft Internet Explorer competes with Netscape Navigator over usage share
• First version of Java released
• Hotmail is launched
• ICQ is released
• IndiaMART marketplace launches
• Netscape proposed frames in HTML 3.0
• The Internet Archive was founded
• The Swedish social networking website LunarStorm, originally called Stajlplejs, is launched

refresh

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9610/msg00000.html (archive)

1996 / 🇷🇺 / 🇸🇮 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Alexei Shulgin, Vuk Ćosić, Andreas Broeckmann

A Multi-Nodal Web-Surf-Create-Session for an Unspecified Number of Players. If you don't get depressed by homeless homepages and wandering websites, and if you don't mind to get zapped after 10 seconds, why not join Refresh.

Why Not Sneeze?
https://nondes.home.xs4all.nl/sneeze/frame.html

1996–2000 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Michael Gibbs & Brigitte van der Sande

why not sneeze? is a site for critical art on and about the internet' a combination of a magazine and a laboratory for experiments; a platform for everyone professionally involved with art and media.

CyberAtlas
http://jonippolito.net/cyberatlas/cyberatlas_archive/intro/ca-f.html

1996–1998 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Jon Ippolito

The aim of CyberAtlas is to commission and collect a series of maps of cyberspace, with a particular focus on sites related to visual art and culture. Unlike the typical navigational chart, the maps can take you where you want to go and tell you how to get there.

Turbulence
http://turbulence.org/

1996–2016 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Helen Thorington & Jo-Anne Green

Turbulence.org commissions, exhibits, and archives works that creatively explore the Internet as both a site of production and transmission. It is the only organization in the USA that has as its core mission the commissioning of Net Art by both emerging and established artists.

CyberPowPow
http://www.cyberpowwow.net

1996–2004 / 🇨🇦
Curators: Skawennati Tricia Fragnito

The CyberPowWow project is part website and part "palace" -- a series of interconnected, graphical chat rooms which allow visitors to interact with one another in real time. Together, they form a virtual gallery with digital (and digitized) artworks and a library of texts.

1997

• AOL Instant Messenger is released
• Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Active Desktop
• Microsoft Agent
• Netflix was founded as rent-by-mail service
• Popup ads invented
• shareyourworld.com launched
• “weblog” coined by J. Berger

documenta X

https://www.documenta12.de/archiv/dx/english/frm_home.htm

1997 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Simon Lamuniere

A specific website including artist’s projects was designed to be online 3 months before the exhibition in Kassel opened and where a special display was showing the projects commissioned. A cdx-rom was conceived as the 1:1 archive of the site.

Stir-fry
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/stir-fry/

1997 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Barbara London

A Video Curator Dispatches from China. Barbara London hikes the back roads of the Middle Kingdom in her quest for the best Chinese Media Art. She is accompanied by F.D.P. Henryz, who is providing audio, visual, and technical assistance on the journey.

Gallery9
http://gallery9.walkerart.org/

1997–2003 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Steve Dietz

Gallery 9 is a site for project-driven exploration, through digitally-based media, of all things ‘cyber’. This includes artist commissions, interface experiments, exhibitions, community discussion, a study collection, hyper essays, filtered links, lectures and other guerilla raids into real space, and collaborations with other entities.

altx: Digital Studies: Being in Cyberspace
https://altx.com/ds/

1997–? / 🇺🇸
Curators: Mark Amerika & Alex Galloway

none of this could have happened / without the advent of World War II / the threat of nuclear holocaust / the thinking of Vannevar Bush / the invention of hypertext / the basic organizational tools of the WWW / before and after Mosaic / the looming threat of WindowsTV / [...]

1998

• Google online search engine was launched
• Paypal was founded
• Open Diary (OD), an early example of social networking software was launched
• XML (eXtensible Markup Language) was first published

Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net

http://gallery9.walkerart.org/midevent.html?id=2

1998 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Steve Dietz

This online exhibition presents a simple proposition. There is art that is created to ‘be’ on the Net. After that, it gets more complex very quickly. Beyond Interface explores some of the complicating issues but does not attempt a comprehensive investigation.

InterNyet
https://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/1998/internyet/

1998 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Barbara London

MoMA curator Barbara London delves into the underground art world of Russia and Ukraine searching for innovative media artists. She is accompanied by F.D.P. Henryz, her aide-de-camp, who provides audio, visual and technical assistance on the journey.

Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/apr/14/splashback-rhizomes-splash-pages-1998-2002/

1998–2002 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Brian Droitcour

Rhizome introduced splash pages to its web site in 1998 in order to display artwork with greater immediacy. Splash art occupied the entire browser window. When the artwork appeared, the only clue to its authorship was in an extension of Rhizome's URL.

DesktopIS
http://www.easylife.org/desktop/desktop_is.html

1998 / 🇷🇺
Curator: Alexei Shulgin

Does your computer desktop reveal your personality? Desktop Is finds out with 67 different screen-grabs of computer desktops. Watch how the participating artists use the constraint of the desktop to inspire their own creativity.

Virtual Worlds: Chelsea in Active Worlds
http://timeline.manetas.com/situations/virtualworlds/ - https://cargocollective.com/manetas/filter/Life/VIRTUAL-WORLDS-CHELSEA-IN-ACTIVE-WORLDS (archive)

1998–2001 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Miltos Manetas and Andreas Angelidakis with Ginger Freeman

Instead of creating a cyber fantasy-land, which would somehow be the most obvious thing to do, we decided that Chelsea would be a copy of the real world, just like websites were copies of existing information. Could we create a new place out of a boring collection of 3D glass windows and brick walls?

1999

• Alibaba.com marketplace launches
• Amazon patents its 1-Click service
• Blogger
• LiveJournal launches
• MSN Messenger launches
• Napster
• RSS
• Web 2.0 (by Darcy DiNucci)
• Yahoo! Messenger launches

ArtCart
http://artcart.de/

1999–2000 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Mario Hergueta

_{If there is no system to guarantee reliable distribution, the works disappear. Artcart tried to create some kind of net art economy. Not only for selling net art, but to force the collection, preservation and support of net art.}

Impakt Online
www.impakt.nl/online

1999–2013 / 🇺🇸
Curators: various (incl. Martijn van Boven, Annet Dekker, W&er Eikelboom, Deanna Herst, Derek Holzer, Sabine Niederer)

With Impakt Online we want to contribute to the development of the internet as an artistic medium. Every year Impakt supports six artists to complete a net.art project. Impakt Online focuses on projects which use the Internet's special characteristics.

Art.Teleportacia
http://art.teleportacia.org/

1999– / 🇷🇺
Curator: Olia Lialina

For Art.Teleportacia team net.art is more than a gag or a one-season fashion. Net.art is the art of the future and it opens a wide range of possibilities to a new generation of artists and collectors. Art.Teleportacia is your chance to buy an original work of internet art for your internet office or home page.

2000

• dot.com bubble
• Google launches AdWords, which allows for advertising based on a user's browsing habits and their search keywords
• Habbo, a game-based social networking site launches
• HTTPS protocol was formally specified
• Microsoft Office Assistant
• RSS is created
• Walmart marketplace launches

Through the looking glass

http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/

2000 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Patrick Lichty

Through the Looking Glass is an exhibition that surveys digital art forms to examine critical issues in digital art, and to explore the ways in which these aesthetic practices engage with the audience.

Whitney 2000 Biennial
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-biennial

2000 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Maxwell Anderson (museum director) & other curators

9 websites were part of the show, amongst which "Grammatron" by Mark Amerika; "Redsmoke" by Lew Baldwin; "Superbad" by Ben Benjamin; "Every Icon" by John F. Simon; and "Sampling Broadway" by Annette Weintraub.

Art Entertainment Network
http://aen.walkerart.org/

2000 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Steve Dietz & designed by Vivien Selbo

With Art Entertainment Network, I worked with a native format of the Internet to create a playful portal, which both acknowledged the virtual exhibition space as a pointer/filter function and yet tried to imbue it with content beyond the hot list.

Netart: Vernaculars
https://ww.closky.info/?p=1629 (archive)

2000–2001 / 🇫🇷
Curators: Alison Gingeras & Jean-Noël Lafargue

Speaking, deforming, inventing the new languages of the web. With works by Cercle Ramo Nahs, Vuk Cosic, Rainer Ganahl, JoDi, Olive Martin & Patrick Bernier, Mark Napier and ®™ark.

Java Museum
http://www.javamuseum.org/

2000–2005 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

JavaMuseum focused on net-based art as a virtual museum, a specific form of digital art based on technologies used in the Internet. Until 2005, it organized more than 20 showcases of netart, three competitions and included more than 1000 artworks by 350 artists from 40 countries.

e.space SFMOMA
http://web.archive.org/web/20020408152231/http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html (archive)

2000–2009 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Aaron Betsky, Benjamin Weil, Joseph Rosa & Helen Hilton Raiser

With e.space, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art proceeds with its investigation of the online medium as both a venue for new art projects and a space in which the conventions of exhibiting can be re-addressed.

Tate net art projects
http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/archive/net_art_date.shtm

2000–2011 / 🇬🇧
Curators: various, among others, Honor Hagar, Kelli Dipple

Between 2000 and 2011, Tate commissioned 15 works of internet art. Among them were Susan Collins’s announcement of a Tate gallery opening in outer space and Heath Bunting’s guide to illegally crossing Europe’s borders.

Alt.interface
http://archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/interface/

2000–2003 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Rhizome

Alt.interface is a series of alternative interfaces to Rhizome's archives of text and art.

The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts]
http://www.shankarbaba.com/the-idea.html

2000–2004 / 🇮🇳
Curator: Shankar Barua

The IDEA was a series of 7 CD-gazettes intended to catalog, distribute, and archive works and statements from an ever-changing and ever-expanding range of Electronic Artists around India and the world. Entirely formatted in plain HTML, the entire series was mirrored online.

Neen World
sites.rhizome.org/anthology/afterneen (archive)

2000 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Miltos Manetas

Neen World is an open-ended architectural experiment which started as an ActiveWorlds place for members of the Neen art movement to meet, walk and talk online: a chat-room.

2001

• Creative Commons is founded
• Google Images was launched
• The Smiley Company developed The Smiley Dictionary
• The Wayback Machine is launched by the Internet Archive
• Wikipedia is launched

iGalerie: mudam

https://ww.closky.info/?p=1628 (archive)

2001–2006 / 🇱🇺
Curators: Claude Closky, with Simon Lamunière, Jean-Charles Massera & Benjamin Weil (editorial committee)

Online exhibition space for Musée d'Art Modern du Luxembourg that offered a look at certain current events and at new trends in art and presented works (six per year) produced by artists for the site, and therefore specific to the Internet.

The Interface Zone
www.sarai.net/about-us/spaces

2001–2009 / 🇮🇳
Curators: Sarai Media Lab

The Sarai Interface Zone was a programme that operated as a space for the research and practice of digital media in Delhi to connect the imagination of a city with visions of the world. It included a digital archive of urban culture and a media lab.

Korea Web Art Festival
http://www.koreawebart.org/2001/Home.html

2001 / 🇰🇷
Curators: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

The Festival saw the commissions of 4 artist collectives and a Net art Contest open to Korean Net artists.

Whitney Artport
https://www.whitney.org/exhibitions/artport/commissions

2001– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Christiane Paul

Artport is the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art. It provides access to original art works and documentation of net art and new media art exhibitions at the Whitney.

2002

• First release of The Onion Router (tor) network
• Social networking site Friendster launches

Whitney 2002 Biennial
https://whitney.org/www/2002biennial/index.shtml

2002–2002 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Lawrence Rinder, Chrissie Iles, Christiane Paul

10 original artworks were exhibited online under the net art category, which was supplemented by a discussion panel in collaboration with the "Netart Initiative".

Whitney 2002 Biennial
http://www.whitneybiennial.com/

2002 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Miltos Maneta & Patrick Lichty

Opened at electronicOrphanage in Los Angeles to stage a net art show as an online foil to the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the project developed into a full-on counter-exhibition hosted on the website whitneybiennial.com and installed IRL as a physical intervention.

Day Jobs
http://web.archive.org/web/20090429064435/http://www.newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Network&archive=&&eventId=35 (archive)

2002 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Richard Rinehart

Day Jobs explores the relationship between international net art and its social and economic context through case studies of individual net artists' day jobs in relation to their art. This exhibition examines the conditions of practice as a way into a genre.

Translocations
http://latitudes.walkerart.org/translocations/index.html

2002–2003 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Steve Dietz

Translocations presents projects that explore the “translocal” concept, and seeks to examine how artists who rely on the Internet in their work, explore the notion and the role of the local in an increasingly globalised and networked society.

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

2002–2007 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Nicolas Pioch

The WebMuseum is a collaborative work of its visitors contributing to expand and improve the WebMuseum. Such an Internet exhibit will neither reach the quality of paper reproduction and professional critic, nor will it be as easily available as a local CD-ROM, given the transfer time on the Internet.

Mix-m
http://www.mix-m.org/

2002–2008 / 🇨🇭
Curator: Simon Lamuniere & fabric (architecture)

Mix-m stands for a mixed and extended museum that exists both in physical and digital spaces, in localized and networked environments. Mix-m plays with the dimensions of its architecture: a mix between a real museum space (1:1), a digital space based on the dimensions of its host (1:x) and a model of this game-like environment (1:50).

Web Biennial
http://www.webbiennial.org/wb14.html

2002–2014 / 🇹🇷
Curator: Genco Gulan (founder)

Started in collaboration with Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, every two years WB takes the form of virtual 'pavilions', presenting a large amount of contemporary Internet art, linking them in one way or another.

net.narrative
https://web.archive.org/web/20080418015346/http:/www.sfcamerawork.org/past_exhibits/netnarrative.html (archive)

2002 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Marisa Olson

Artists have begun to explore the site-specificity of the Internet, while also reconsidering what constitutes a ‘narrative.’ As database aesthetics pervade contemporary art, patterns of user behavior, the protocol of data presentation and retrieval, and the self-reflexive visualization of data, the artists in net.narrative are all working within this emergent genre.

The Kingdom of Piracy
https://v2.nl/archive/works/kingdom-of-piracy (archive)

2002–2003 / 🇹🇼
Curators: Yukiko Shikata, Armin Medosch & Shu Lea Cheang

14 art works and 3 writers projects were commissioned to deal with Intellectual Property issues ranging from bio-piracy, censorship and control of the internet to demos, games and new interfaces for file-sharing. The project was designed to include links, objects, ideas, software, and online streaming media events.

Virtual Transfer
https://www.archimuse.com/publishing/ichim03/014C.pdf (archive)

2002–2004 / 🇨🇭
Curators: Harald Kraemer & Konrad Jaggi

The VIRTUAL TRANSFER offers the opportunity to rediscover the charm and charisma of the objects in the collections, their history and their impact on the viewer.

2003

• 4Chan was founded
• Apple launched Safari browser
• Blogger bought by Google
• Del.icio.us was launched
• EyeToy for the PlayStation 2
• Google launches ADsense, allowing promotion of goods based on the product's relevance to the viewer of the advertisement
• iTunes store launches
• LinkedIn launches
• MySpace was launched
• SecondLife launched by Linden Lab

• Skype launches
• The Pirate Bay was founded
• Valve launches Steam, a Digital rights management (DRM) and gaming platform • WordPress was launched

Low Level All-Stars
http://archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/Low_Level_All_Stars/

2003 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Radical Software & Beige Records

Low Level All-Stars showcases the best cracker tags selected from over 1000 games for the Commodore 64 computer. All cracker tags have been re-cracked by beige and rsg and extracted as stand-alone Commodore animations. You may watch a video clip, or view still images.

packet
https://web.archive.org/web/20051214121328/http://newlangtonarts.org/list_events.php?category=network&archive=1& (archive)

2003–2005 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Richard Rinehart

Playfully named for these 'worker elves' of the networked world, the packet exhibition program showcases young artists who may not have exhibited before – sometimes students or artists new to the medium who may not have developed enough work yet for a full-fledged show.

Width: 700px
https://700gallery.tumblr.com/info

2003–2014 / 🇨🇦
Curator: Levi Bruce

700gallery is a digital gallery hosted on Tumblr. It acts as a platform for digital works that investigate, question or indicate the culture of displaying art online. The gallery intentionally flattens, reduces, and slows the act of looking at works in a gallery.

runme.org
http://runme.org/

2003– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova, Alex McLean & Alexei Shulgin

Runme.org is a software art repository. It is an open, moderated database to which people are welcome to submit projects they consider to be interesting examples of software art.

2004

• 11.4 million users of Facebook in a year
• “blog” is word of the year in the Marriam-Webster dictionary
• Facebook launched
• Flickr launches
• Gmail launched
• Orkut (India and Brazil) by Google
• “Web 2.0” coined by Tim O’Ralley

Inspector London
https://www.kathrinkur.com/inspector-london/info.html

2004 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Kathrine Kur

Inspector London – from Marx to Mobiles. The consumer as designer/producer – a sketch of contemporary consumption/production landscapes.

m+k::ya heard: sounds from the rhizome artbase
http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/ya_heard/

2004 / 🇺🇸
Curators: mendi & keith obadike

The sound art represented in the Artbase includes instruments, avant-garde music, documents from webcast performances, and radio art. The works we feature from among them depend on the network – on the Internet as a medium for making sound and as a place where audiences listen.

no/copy/right
http://no-org.net/no/copy/right/

2004 / 🇮🇱
Curators: Sala-Manca Group & Matvey (no-org.net)

The works approach the definitions of author, authority, and authenticity from many different angles. no-org.net is a Jerusalem art network that serves as a platform for experimental projects in the area of net-based and digital art.

2005

• Adobe Flash dictionary
• Apple Dashboard was launched, bringing widgets to Apple desktops
• Chinese social networking website Renren was founded as Xiaonei Network
• Criteo SA launched
• Google Maps was launched
• Infinite Scroll JavaScript plugin
• Kurator launched
• Reddit was founded
• YouTube launched

Net Art's Cyborg[feminist]s, Punks, and Manifestos
http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/cyborg/essay.html

2005 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Marina Grzinic

_{The idea behind the exhibition’s selection is to think Internet art radically different from those projects and activities on the net that nurture only their design aspects, without questioning the logic of their appearances or the social matrix to which they apply.}

Raiders of the Lost ArtBase
http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/raiders/

2005 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Michael Connor

Michael Connor tunneled through the Rhizome ArtBase, hunting for buried treasures both ancient and new. Once a week, he posted his findings on this weblog, and kept a list of bookmarks online at http://del.icio.us/connor/artbase.

Binarykatwalk
http://binarykatwalk.net/

2005 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Jeremy Hight & Sindee Nakatani

An on-line New Media exhibition focusing on work that is experimental and would benefit from this non-traditional exhibition space. The goal is to unify works over time into one expanding and unified exhibition as opposed to specific exhibitions that open and then close.

2006

• Adblock, an add blocking add-on for web browswers is released
• Blingee, an online animated GIF-maker was launched
• Cloud computing popularised
• Facebook launches newsfeed
• ‘google’ as a verb is introduced by Merriam-Webster dictionary
• “Surf Clubs” group artist blogs where the prevailing subject is internet culture and aesthetics, are popular
• Twitter launched
• Wix.com, a cloud-based platform for webdesign was founded
• YouTube is acquired by Google

eBayaday

http://exstrange.com/relatives/ebayaday/ (archive)

2006 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Rebekah Modrak, Aaron Ahuvia & Zack Denfeld

To explore the domain of ecommerce, its language and symbolic value, and its impact on artistic production, presentation and collecting.

Time Shares
http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/timeshares/professionalsurfer.php

2006 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Lauren Cornell

It brings together websites run by individuals and collectives who re-publish found digital material next to remixed graphics, video, performance and commentary. Framed as individual artworks, the websites employ appropriation, yet set apart by a deep immersion in their surrounding digital environment.

2007

• AppleTV, the digital media player and microconsole was launched
• Bitstrips, a company creating comic strips using personalized avatars was founded.
• Facebook launches Beacon, anadvertising platform that tracks Facebook users' activities on websites outside of Facebook
• Flipkart marketplace launches in India
• Google Street View was launched
• “hashtag” word coined by Chris Messina
• Hulu was launched
• Introduction of the ‘Like’ Button on Facebook
• Microsoft Silverlight, a tool for creating graphic interfaces, launches
• Social bookmarking website FFFFOUND! was created
• The first iPhone was launched
• The term “w00t”, a slang interjection to express joy, is Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s word of the year. The term is popular on forums, Usenet posts, multiplayer computer games, IRC chats, and in instant messaging
• Tumblr was launched

Victims' Syndrom
victims.labforculture.org/

2007 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Ana Peraica

A collection of interviews, essays, artists’ statements and glossary definitions, which was originally launched as a Web project. It brought together cases related to past and current sites of conflict such as Srebrenica, Palestine, and Kosovo, reporting from different (and sometimes conflicting) international viewpoints.

TAGallery
https://web.archive.org/web/20150913151707/http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=268 (archive)

2007–2010 / 🇦🇹
Curators: cont3xt.net (Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Birgit Rinagl, Franz Thalmair)

An experimental online exhibition space extending the idea of a tagged exhibition and transferring the main tasks of non-commercial exhibition-spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space. What if a link turns into the representative of the artefact, the context and the exhibition at once?

Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin Second Life
slurl.com/secondlife/Pixel%20Art/127/138/32

2007–? / 🇩🇪
Curators: Designed by Krischanitz ZT GmbH

A Second Life precursor of the temporary Kunsthalle Berlin featuring Candice Breitz and Franz Ackermann.

Blogumenta
https://noemalab.eu/memo/blogumenta/

2007–? / 🇨🇦
Curator: Robert Labossiere

Blogumenta may be Facebook’s first art gallery/art fair. Anyone can join and submit an artwork by uploading a photo or writing on the wall or any other way you can think of to contribute. Everything is subject to moderation by admin. Please be courteous.

CuratingYouTube
http://www.curatingyoutube.net/ (archive)

2007– / 🇩🇪
Curator: Robert Sakrowski (initially with Jonas Lund)

CuratingYouTube (CYT) explores, in a multimodal manner and across fields of cultural creation, the artistic and amateur production facilitated by YouTube.

Espace Virtuel Jeu de Paume

http://espacevirtuel.jeudepaume.org/

2007– / 🇫🇷
Curators: various

Jeu de Paume supports Internet creation by presenting artists' projects created especially for the virtual space of its site.

2008

• Airbnb was founded
• Android Market was launched
• App Store (iOS) was launched
• Blockchain was first introduced
• Development of Tor browser started
• DuckDuckGo web browser was introduced
• Facebook chat was introduced
• GitHub was founded
• Google Lively, a web-based virtual environment was launched and discontinued the same year
• PayPal Credit is acquired by eBay

Montage: Unmonumental Online

http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/montage/08_fei.php

2008 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Lauren Cornell & Marisa Olson

Final exhibition in Unmonumental: the Object in the 21st Century at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Digital material is never natural. It is either generated or repurposed, and always pre-inscribed with meaning. It settles in sediments, turning the Web into a veritable billboard land.

Club Internet
http://clubinternet.org/

2008–2009 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Harm van den Dorpel

Online exhibition 'space' conceived by Harm van den Dorpel and curated by various people, such as Damon Zucconi, Guthrie Lonergan and Constant Dullaart, on the occasion of the Internet Pavillion at the Venice Biennale.

XYM
xym.no

2008–2011 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Yngve Holen & Marlie Mul Design with Per TÃrnberg & Joel Galvez

A web-based project bringing you the longest short-term temporary and transient yet constant database of possibilities to download individual pdf publications. The artist becomes the author and editor of a history making free-downloadable pdf file with a rapidly nearing best-before date.

Probe
http://www.projectprobe.net/

2008–2019 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Suze May Sho

We built a small exhibition space in our studio. The space is called Probe and is designed as a test lab for radical exhibition concepts. The space – open to public only online – measures a somewhat six cubic meters. Its dimensions are flexible.

Netescopio. New Art Viewer of the MEIAC
http://netescopio.meiac.es/en/index.php

2008 / 🇪🇸
Curator: Gustavo Romano

An on-line archive in continual development dedicated to the conservation of works of art generated for the web. It includes net art, digital poetry, electronic literature, CD ROMs, applications, actions and interventions with technological devices and other formats that imply digital strategies.

nobelprize.no
https://web.archive.org/web/20120304230937/http://www.nobelprize.no/about.html (archive)

2008 / 🇺🇸 / 🇪🇸
Curator: Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman

UNOFFICIAL NOBEL PEACE PRIZE INTERNET EXHIBITION 2011 What we need is a peace lobby: let's start a fund to promote our favorite candidates! We'll do promo ads all around Oslo, like, on billboards and on the sides of boats.

2009

• Bitcoin launches
• Crowdfundingwebsite Kickstarter launches
• Microblogging/social media platform Sina Weibo was launched
• Push notifications are used for other purposes than email for the first time through Apple’s Push Notification System
• The term “prosumer” was coined
• Minecraft was released
• Uber was founded
• WhatsApp was first released
• World Wide Web Foundation was established by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right

del.icio.us

https://www.constantdullaart.com/arti.html

2009 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Constant Dullaart

Let's do a show in which, like is possible on del.icio.us, the inspiration that leads up to an art work is visible, but now physical, not only existing as a jpeg or url. And show this together with the final work that this inspiration led to.

Beam me up
http://beam-me.net/

2009–2010 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Reinhard Storz

Beam Me Up explored ways of creating an interactive multimedia Internet magazine dedicated to the intermingling of art, science and writing online and based on the functions of self-publishing and semi-public content aggregation.

Jstchillin.org
http://jstchillin.org/schedule/

2009–2011 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Parker Ito & Caitlin Denny

A revolving exhibition of two-week solo sites with accompanying essays by Caitlin Denny & Parker Ito. Each artist will take over jstchillin.org for two weeks with all new work that pertains to the interests of chillin.

or-bits.com
https://www.or-bits.com/index.php

2009–2015 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Marialaura Ghidini

or-bits.com is an online curatorial project, a platform for the production, display and distribution of commissioned artworks and critical writing. It explores ways we perceive things, promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media, and working with the empty web page.

mybiennialisbetterthanyours
http://mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com/

2009–2009 / 🇫🇷
Curators: Tolga Taluy

The works displayed on mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com are not subversive because they are trying to deconstruct established systems of dot.capitalism. They are subversive because they are referring to these systems through the use of amateur “original” content production standards.

Padiglione Internet
https://timeline.manetas.com/situations/internetpavilion/

2009–2015 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Miltos Manetas

Born in December 2009, when Daniel Birnbaum, director of the 53rd Venice Biennale, invited Miltos Manetas – through curator Jan Aman – to propose a project. Manetas and Aman invited people involved with the activist website ThePirateBay.org to inaugurate the "Embassy of Piracy“.

700MGB
http://www.700mbg.com/

2009– / 🇩🇪
Curators: Phillip Sadofsky & Stefan Riebel

700MBG presents solo exhibitions on compact discs and partially on the webpages of the gallery. The project can be understood as a gallery, as a continuously growing archive for digital art, and as an art project which questions the boundaries of archiving, transmediation and accessibility.

2010

• Android becomes the most popular smartphone operating system
• “app” chosen as word of the year by Marriam-Webster dictionary
• European Union launches three anti-trust investigations into Google for violating the EU´s competition laws
• First purchase using Bitcoin
• Groupon marketplace launches
• Instagram launches
• LibreOffice was released
• Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 was released
• Pinterest launches
• Virtual assistant Siri was acquired by Apple from SRI International

IN.F3XXX10N.US

https://joncates.blogspot.com/2010/07/inf3xx10nus.html (archive)

2010 / 🇺🇸
Curators: jonCates & Jake Elliott

During the run of the exhibition you can infect us @ IN.F3XXX10N.US! On July 31 2010 this domain will expire, effectively ending our control of the exhibition but opening the opportunity to anyone who wishes to purchase the domain and continue the project.

The Gallery Space
http://thegalleryspace.info

2010 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Louis Doulas

An exhibition site that hopes to avert our notions of the traditional “gallery space” model away from it’s strictly physical setting and instead to acknowledging its virtual presence as a legitimate, influential and dynamic platform for experiencing, distributing and creating artwork.

STATE
http://thestate.tumblr.com/

2010–2011 / 🇺🇸
Curator: ?

STATE is an online exhibition platform that features new projects and statements by artists who use the internet as a primary element in their work. The goal of STATE is to engage a more substantial online viewership and initiate critical dialog.

NetArtWorks
http://aaaan.net/netartworks-identity-works/ (archive)

2010–2012 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Annet Dekker

By commissioning new content/artworks that address or exploit the online space and the characteristics of networks, SKOR wants to critically engage with this space. The SKOR NetArtWorks are a place for project-driven exploration through digital media.

temporarystedelijk.com
http://temporarystedelijk.com/

2010–2012 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Kalle Mattson & Amber van den Eeden

temporary stedelijk (7) is the last exhibition on this website. Since February 2012 we have organised 4 exhibitions on temporarystedelijk.com and temporarystedelijk.nl. We bought these domain names when we found out that Stedelijk Museum had neglected to do so.

LEA (new) media exhibitions
https://www.leoalmanac.org/category/exhibitions/

2010–2013 / 🇺🇸
Curators: various

Leonardo Electronic Almanac exhibitions site.

Chrystal Gallery
http://chrystalgallery.info/

2010–2015 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Timur Si-Qin

A virtual gallery showing international artists in 3D photorealistic rendered spaces.

Parallelograms
http://www.parallelograms.info/about.html

2010–2015 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Leah Beeferman & Matthew Harvey

Parallelograms is an online artist project exploring the relationship between images and interpretation. Invited artists are given a set of images taken from deliberate web searches and asked to create a web-specific piece in response to one of them.

DUMP.FM
http://dump.fm/

2010–2017 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Ryder Ripps in collaboration with Scott Ostler & Tim Baker

DUMP.FM is an image-based chat room for real-time communication. DUMP.FM serves as a platform for artists who use its technology to foster community and creativity.

stuffinablank
http://www.stuffinablank.com/index.html

2010–2020 / 🇧🇷
Curator: Pedro Torres

stuffinablank is: to put some stuff together and in relation to some other ones in a blank, and a blank canvas considered as an endless space to show the contents of curated projects using a basic and simple design.

2011

• Alipay designs a QR code payment method
• Google Wallet launches
• Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) was first released, including features such as Virtual Gallery Tour and Artwork View
• iMessage was introduced by Apple as alternative to SMS and MMS
• Siri integrated in the release of the iPhone4S
• Snapchat launches
• The term “postinternet” was coined by Marisa Olson
• The Xiaomi Mi1 smartphone is announced, receiving over 300,000 pre-orders in the first 34 hours • Twitch.tv launches

A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD

http://www.neromagazine.it/a_clock_that_runs_on_mud/-/

2011 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Jennifer Teets

A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD is an attempt to unravel a quandary in the form of theories, propositions, works and writings on the concept of ‘muddy time’.

Art Micro-Patronage
http://artmicropatronage.org/about#

2011–2012 / 🇺🇸
Curators: The Present Group (Eleanor Hanson Wise & Oliver Wise)

An experimental online exhibition space featuring monthly curated shows of digital, new media, and intermedia work. As visitors navigate through the exhibitions, they are encouraged to become micro-patrons of the arts, associating their appreciation of the works with small monetary values.

Bubblebyte
http://www.bubblebyte.org/about/

2011–2013 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Attilia Fattori Franchini, Rhys
Coren & Paul Flannery

bubblebyte.org was container, artist and gallery that then became a project that specialised in integrating artwork within the fabric of already functioning websites through commissions and curated take-overs.

ANI GIF
https://ani-gif.com/about/

2011–2014 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Kyra Rehn & Sarah Caluag

ANI GIF is an online gallery for artists to explore the creative possibilities of the Animated GIF file format.

KLAUSGALLERY.net
http://www.klausgallery.net/ebooks/about.html

2011–2017 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery & Paul Pescador

KLAUSGALLERY.net is an online project that presents digital and internet-based artworks in a gallery context. In its current form it approaches artists project-by-project to present work on the site, ranging from webcast performances to a gallery of gifs.

FELT
https://news.feltzine.us

2011– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Mark Sabb & Devon Moore

FELT is an experimental internet art platform and artist collective, which has grown from a small group of like-minded creatives to an international movement. Its IRL and URL experiences examine digital activism, hip hop culture, race, gender, and class.

SPAMM (Super Modern Art Museum)
http://spamm.fr/

2011– / 🇫🇷
Curator: Systaime

Lafiac.com
lafiac.com

2011– / 🇫🇷
Curators: Florent di Bartolo, Julien Levesque & Margherita Balzerani

Lafiac.com is a space that extends the boundaries of the International Fair of Contemporary Art with artists who use the Web as a creative space.

The Widget Art Gallery (WAG)
https://the-widget-art-gallery.blogspot.com/

2011– / 🇮🇹
Curators: Chiara Passa

The WAG is a mini single art gallery room that fits into people's pockets. The virtual gallery room, every month, directly on people’s mobile, hosts a solo digital art exhibition related to its dynamic site-specific context.

2012

• Google Drive was launched
• “meme” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year
• Online publishing platform Medium.com launches
• Stop Online Piracy Act - SOPA (USA)
• The term “new aesthetics” was coined by James Bridle
• Vine launches
• Zoom launches

Print Fiction
http://www.printfiction.net/

2012 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Michael Alfred

Exploring the presentation of printed matter on the web. At that time the viewers could navigate the exhibition in the first person, by moving through a 3D environment. All the elements were commissioned from 18 different artists.

DALLAS BIENNIAL DB12: Volume 1–4
http://dallasbiennial.org/db-12/

2012 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Jesse Morgan Barnett and Michael Mazurek

A two-year long internet-based event, DB12 is an amalgam: part event, part research, part data, part publication. It will comment on, and create discourse in, notions of objecthood, counterpoint, displacement, multiplicity, media and socio-technological archaeology.

UnlimitedGTI
http://unlimitedgti.com/messestand%20steph.html

2012 / 🇨🇭
Curator: Yves Scherer

Unlimited GTI is Art Basel's pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show stand – including video projections, large-scale website takeover's, PDF-corner and private viewing area.

Sleeping Upright
http://sleepingupright.com/

2012 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Candice Jacobs

Sleeping Upright is an online project designed to be looked at on your computer or mobile device; artists have been invited to create and display new work that can be encountered in this somewhat personal space to interfere with and punctuate your day.

Domain Gallery
http://www.domain-gallery.net/

2012–2013 / 🇪🇸
Curator: Manuel Fernández

Domain Gallery is an online gallery focused on Digital and Internet Based Works. Domain Gallery displays a program with exhibitions every month directly on your computer and digital devices.

Gallery Online
https://www.facebook.com/GalleryOnline/ https://gallery0nline.wordpress.com/ (archive)

2012–2019 / 🇺🇸 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Ronen Shai & Thomas Cheneseau

Gallery Online is located on Facebook and is utilizing it as a self-contained virtual-reality environment. Artists who are invited to have a show at the Gallery receive a limited time period in which they can display works and organize the gallery space as they wish.

Legion TV: Online
http://legion-tv.com/online/

2012–2017 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Kiera Blakey & Matthew Hughes

Legion TV produced a programme of simultaneous gallery and online exhibitions that comprised almost entirely of newly commissioned work.

Net.Specific
http://netspecific.net/en/netspecific

2012–2015 / 🇩🇰
Curator: ?

With the exhibition platform Net.Specific, the Museum of Contemporary Art seeks to expand its exhibition space to include the Internet. This is achieved both by involving net art as an art form and by using the Internet itself as an exhibition space.

Idle Screenings
https://idlescreenings.com/

2012– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Mitch Trale

Idle Screenings streams art to thousands of desktops daily, through our custom screensaver. The exhibition explores value within an attention economy by presenting work to empty audiences in vacant rooms, at the expense of other resources, such as energy, bandwidth, and time.

Screen Saver Gallery
https://screensaver.metazoa.org/

2012– / 🇨🇿
Curator: Mary Meixner

ScreenSaverGallery should not be perceived just as a platform for the presentation of contemporary art, but it should also become an experimental environment for its development. Experiments with the situations in which the screensaver appears should be constantly made by every user (i.e. YOU).

Field Broadcast
http://www.fieldbroadcast.org/

2012–2013 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Rebecca Birch & Rob Smith

Field Broadcast works with ideas of remoteness and connectivity, intimacy and distance. Its medium is live digital broadcast, and it commissions artists to make work specifically for this platform. Field Broadcast grew from practices rooted in both landscape and the space of the screen.

Generation Works
http://generationworks.me

2012–2013 / 🇨🇦
Curator: Jasper Spicero

An offline exhibition that was not accessible, but the works on display would be documented and made available on a dedicated website.

First Look: New Art Online
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/online

2012 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Lauren Cornell

First Look is a digital art commissioning and exhibition program that has supported over thirty-five works to date. First Look: New Art Online is a series of innovative online projects and new commissions.

The Download
https://rhizome.org/download/#works

2012–2018 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Zoë Salditch

The Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as a space for exhibition.

Float Gallery
https://float.gallery/

2012–2018 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Manual Rossner

Float Gallery explores the possibilities of working in the digital realm. In multiple Group and Solo Exhibition the virtual space features artists that are working on digital work on display in replicas of existing gallery spaces.

Espacio Byte
http://www.espaciobyte.org/ien

2012– / 🇦🇷
Curator: Enrique Salmoiraghi

Espacio Byte is an online museum dedicated exclusively to digital art. A source of information to learn about its first manifestations, contemporary movements, and specific issues. The museum offers a natural environment for digital-native artworks, an interface to exhibit artists who explore new languages, poetics, and aesthetic values.

2013

• Deliveroo was founded
• Facebook begins with users’ sponosored posts
• Google Hangouts launches
• Instagram releases its feature of having sponsored posts appear on user's feeds
• Slack was first used as internal communication tool for the company that developed it
• Telegram was founded

MON3Y AS AN 3RRROR | MON3Y.US

MON3Y.US

2013– / 🇪🇸
Curator: Vasily Zaitsev (fictitiuos)

The exhibition proposes to establish connections, dialogues, and new insights into the contemporary art scene around the general topic of MONEY. The selected artists work in fields such as Digital Art, Net.Art , New Media, Interactive Art, JavaScript, Glitch, Video, Online Performance and Animated GIF.

BEAUTIFUL INTERFACES: THE DEEP IN THE VOID
http://miyovanstenis.com/blog/beautiful-interfaces-the-deep-in-the-void/ (archive)

2013 / 🇻🇪 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Miyö Van Stenis

From the inspiring and famous social network’s interfaces to mobile devices, the artists show us what they see as Beautiful Interfaces while the art makes its way to the deep. Each exhibition consists of one unique copy available for sale for 700 Euro each.

WELCOME SCREEN
https://www.picuki.com/profile/welcomescreengallery

2013–2015 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Michael Pybus

Welcome Screen employed social networking tools to nurture and develop a series of exhibitions with international artists.

AOYS (Art On Your Screen)
http://aoys.zkm.de/

2013–2016 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Matthias Kampmann, Margit Rosen (2013-2015), Janine Burger, Caroline Clausnitzer (2014-2016)

ArtOnYourScreen (AOYS) is the participatory online exhibition platform of ZKM. It is an innovative place for artistic production and mediation under the conditions of the networked world.

V4ULT
https://www.facebook.com/V4ULT-506458162754140/ & https://conifer.rhizome.org/despens/v4ult/list/bookmarks/b2/20171020191419/http://v4ult.cc/
(archive)

2013–2016 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Anna Mikkola & Hanne Lippard

V4ULT is a curatorial platform initiated in 2013. Taking place in various built environments, in book form, and online, the project has been described as an "interface" through which people, ideas and artworks move.

The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale
https://biennale.thewrong.org/

2013– / 🇪🇸
Curator: David Quiles

Celebrating digital culture since 2013, the wrong is a collaborative effort harnessing the potential of the internet, shaped as a decentralized global art biennale, open to participation, happening both online & offline.

Desktop Residency
http://www.desktopresidency.com/

2013– / 🇬🇧
Curators: John Henry Newton & Barnaby Page

Desktop Residency invites artists to create artworks that are free to download as wallpapers for your devices.

Flatness.eu
http://archive.flatness.eu/

2013– / 🇬🇧
Curator: Shama Khanna

Flatness.eu follows on from the artists’ moving image programme ‘Flatness: Cinema after the Internet’ (featuring special screenings by artists Ed Atkins, Anthea Hamilton and Oliver Laric) curated for Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2013.

Panther Modern
http://panthermodern.org/

2013–2013 / 🇺🇸
Curator: LaTurbo Avedon

Panther Modern is a file-based exhibition space, encouraging artists to create site-specific installations for the internet.

Fifteen Stars
http://fifteenstars.com/

2013 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Brian Droitcour

Commissioned by First Look of the New Museum, Fifteen Stars features five New Museum reviews by Yelpers (not Brian D.), each with a star from 1–5 (totaling fifteen). Through highly personal accounts, the reviewers describe the Museum’s visitor services, exhibition program, and brand identity, offering idiosyncratic interpretations of the show.

DECENTER: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show
https://decenterarmory.com/network/

2013 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Andrianna Campbell & Daniel S. Palmer

P R O P R I O C E P T I O N
https://proprioception.in/

2013– / 🇮🇳
Curator: Charu Maithani

P R O P R I O C E P T I O N is an online platform for various forms of digital art practices. The website is curated to show works like films, videos, interactive works and browser based net art from India.

Young Internet Based Artists
http://younginternetbasedartists.com

2013 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Anthony Antonellis

Young Internet Based Artists is an online exhibition curated as part of The Wrong Digital Art Biennale.

Neverland Space
https://neverlandspace.com/

2013–2017 / 🇨🇭
Curator: Y7K

Neverland Space presents online exhibitions featuring digital art that has never been shown before. Together with the artists we create unique and frequently changing experiences. The time has come for digital art to shine.

2014

• Amazon Alexa was announced
• Apple Pay launches
• Bitmoji, a spin-off app of Bitstrips was launched, allowing users to create stickers
• Facebook purchases Oculus VR
• HTML5 was finalized
• Microsoft Cortana, virtual assistant, was launched
• Musical.ly launches
• News on NSA Facial Recognition Project broke, through documents leaked by Snowden
• PlayStation VR was first announced
• Signal, encrypted instant messaging service was released for iOS
• UBlock Origin, a free and open-source, cross-platform browser extension for content-filtering, including ad-blocking, was launched

Exhibition Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ksouth/exhibition-kickstarter

2014 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Krystal South

This is not a Kickstarter. This is an exhibition. A limited edition custom collection of art objects created online.

Bitrates: GIFbites
http://gifbites.com/exhibition

2014 / 🇮🇷
Curator: Daniel Rourke

As part of Bitrates – an exhibition curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Mani Nilchiani at the Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project, Shiraz, Iran – Daniel Rourke asked 50 artists to create or curate an animated GIF with a short snippet of audio, to be looped together ad infinitum at Bitrates.GIFbites.com.

You Might Be A Dog
http://ymbad.hotglue.me/#about

2014 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Teresa Dillon in collaboration with LEAP

A group show with sixteen emerging and internationally renowned artists whose work humorously, poetically and critically reflects on the construction of our contemporary online identities, self-image and the implications of the ‘broadcasted selfie’.

Desktop Show
http://www.enardediosrodriguez.com/wp/curatorial/#desktop1

2014–2015 / 🇪🇸
Curator: Enar de Dios Rodríguez

Desktop Show was an exhibition of net.art works carried out through Skype’s sharing desktop option on November 18-20, 2014. The exhibition took around 20 minutes for each visitor, one visitor at a time.

Cointemporary
http://Cointemporary.com

2014–2016 / 🇦🇹
Curators: Andy Boot & Valentine Ruhry

Cointemporary.com is an artist-run and curated online platform that showcases a diverse range of artworks by international contemporary artists. The platform is dedicated to one artwork for a period of ten days. The artworks can be purchased for a fixed Bitcoin (BTC) price – independent of the current exchange rate.

http://www.o-u-t-o-f-o-f-f-i-c-e.com/
http://www.o-u-t-o-f-o-f-f-i-c-e.com/

2014–2016 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Matthew Britton

Out of Office is a micro curatorial platform that utilises the auto-reply feature that is present on most email accounts as a method of distributing art. It wishes to suggest an even more intimate way of distributing and viewing online works, one which is primarily in the comfort of your own mailbox.

title date duration
http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/18360/

2014–2017 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Maeve Rendle & Noel Clueit

Title date duration invites artists to show new and existing artworks. The programme intends to provide an opportunity for reflection and discussion. This space has been created to focus on the relationship between the artwork and the viewer.

Link cabinet
http://linkcabinet.eu/

2014–2019 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Matteo Cremonesi for Link Art Centre

Link Cabinet was a single web page hosting solo shows where artists exhibited a single, site-specific artwork.

#0000FF
https://www.facebook.com/h0000ff

2014–? / 🇬🇷
Curator: Georges Jacotey

By being a Facebook Art Gallery, #0000FF’s goal is to enhance Facebook users’ visual experience and challenge the network’s limitations by addressing aesthetic, social and political issues.

Dot Dash 3
https://www.dotdash3.com

2014–? / 🇺🇸
Curator: ?

Dot Dash 3 was founded as a way to encourage and facilitate discourse and discovery. It is a platform that allows artists and curators to curate and stage their own exhibitions, as well as show their work using cutting edge visualization technology to cultivate and expand their collector base.

Cosmos Carl
http://cosmoscarl.com

2014 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Frederique Pissuise & Saemundur Thor Helgason

Cosmos Carl – Platform Parasite is an online platform that hosts links provided by artists, writers, thinkers and curators. CC encourages artists to reclaim (commercial) online platforms to produce and display art. This means that the work is displayed on a website that is neither designed nor hosted by the artist.

63rd - 77th STEPS
http://www.63rd77thsteps.com/about.html

2014–2019 / 🇺🇸 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Fabio Santacroce

63rd – 77th STEPS is a project space inside a building from the beginning of the XX century in Bari. The program exists in different formats: site-specific exhibitions are alternated with on-line and off-site projects, meant as an extension of the physical and symbolic space.

Opening Times – Digital Art Commissions
http://otdac.org

2014–2017 / 🇺🇸 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Fabio Santacroce

Opening Times – Digital Art Commissions is a not-for-profit, digital art commissioning body and platform for artworks whose primary means of encounter is online. Opening Times supports digital practices, experimental publishing and visual culture research through commissions and curated programmes.

2015

• DeepDream Programme by Google and Deep Dream Generator software to explore AI algorithms
• Discord, a VoIP and instant messaging platform launches
• Ethereum launches
• Google’s Android Pay
• Mass-production of “Smart TV’s”
• Windows Holographic and HoloLens augmented reality headsets announced

Unfold

http://unfold.thevolumeproject.com/

2015–2017 / 🇳🇱
Curator: Sara Gianinni

Unfold is an online publishing and archiving platform based upon the structure of the digital folder. Conceived by different guest curators, every issue of Unfold explores a selected topic through constellations of research materials and new commissions to artists and writers.

DiMoDa
https://dimoda.art/

2015– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Alfredo Salazar-Caro & William Richard Robertson

TRANSFER presents the first installation of ‘DiMoDA’ – The Digital Museum of Digital Art. Conceived as a virtual institution and a virtual reality exhibition platform dedicated to the promotion and distribution of New Media Art.

New Scenario
http://newscenario.net

2015– / 🇩🇪
Curators: Paul Barsch & Tilman Hornig

New Scenario is a dynamic platform for conceptual, time based and performative exhibition formats. It happens outside the realm of the white cube and is meant to function as an extension to create new contextual meaning.

Open Space
https://openspace.sfmoma.org/category/project-space/

2015–? / 🇺🇸
Curators: Claudia La Rocco & Bosco Hernández

Open Space is SFMOMA’s online & live interdisciplinary commissioning platform.

Body Anxiety
http://bodyanxiety.com/about/

2015 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Leah Schrager & Jennifer Chan

Body Anxiety shares the varied perspectives of artists who examine gendered embodiment, performance and self-representation on the internet. In Body Anxiety, Schrager and Chan have selected a collection of female-empowering artworks to present in one single location in hopes of reshaping pre-existing narratives of gendered appropriation.

/Performing the Text
newhive.com/kerry/tag/performingthetext

2015 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Kerry Doran

Presented on the NewHive web authoring platform, /Performing the Text was an online exhibition with works by Martine Syms, Emilio Bianchic, and Kalliopi Mathios.

Åzone Futures Market
http://azone.guggenheim.org/

2015 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Troy Conrad Therrien & Ashley Mendelsohn

The Åzone Futures Market presents a web-based simulated stock market that explores the potential effects of a world increasingly shaped by emerging technologies.

De:Formal
https://www.deformal.com/

2015– / 🇰🇷 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Vincent CY Chen & Wednesday Kim

De:Formal is an artists-run online platform dedicated to promoting critical conversations in contemporary art. We present emerging artists who work with video, performance, installation, sculpture, media art and other forms under-recognized in the conventional gallery system. We conduct artist interviews, curate online and offline exhibitions, and host monthly virtual residencies.

2016

• Ad blocking “war” between Facebook and ad-blockers
• Brave, a free and open-source privacy focused web browser was launched
• European Union introduces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Google Assistant was introduced as successor to Google Now
• Pokémon Go mobile game released
• Rhizome releases first public version of Webrecorder, afree online tool that allows users to create their own high-fidelity archives of the dynamic web
• Snapchat begins to include advertisements between user's "stories"
• The DAO, the digital decentralized autonomous organization, was founded after a crowdfunding campaign via a token sale
• The DFINITY Foundation was founded to build the Internet Computer

This Room is too Dark for a Friend
http://www.doggerland.info/digitalprojects/

2016 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Emily Pope & Doggerl&

Welcome to Digital Texts: a series of collaborations between Doggerland and other writers and artists, platforming experimental and creative writing situated around or in response to a wider artist-led/artist-fed culture.

Liaux
http://liaux.org

2016–2019 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Francesca Verga

Liaux is an online platform which shows visual art projects and other creative visions in a non-physical space. Each output is the result of the meeting between curators or other professionals with artists to conceive online projects, exhibitions or new commissions that are presented periodically on the platform.

i.o.u.a.e
https://www.instagram.com/i.o.u.a.e/?hl=en

2016–2020 / 🇬🇧
Curator: Stacey Davidson

I o u a e is an artist run initiative set up in Newcastle upon Tyne to support the practices of still studying, graduating and emerging artists. Our aim is to provide opportunities for collaboration, development and networking between artists, and commission several projects a year.

#nfcdab
https://nfcwproject.tumblr.com/

2016– / 🇵🇱
Curator: Dominik Podsiadly

A DIY international and independent digital art biennale in Wroclaw, Poland, that uses wireless technology, light waves and electromagnetic fields e.g.: Wi-Fi routers, QR codes or NFC tags for accessing content with your 📱 smartphone.

isthisit?
https://www.isthisitisthisit.com/

2016– / 🇬🇧
Curator: Bob Bicknell-Knight

Isthisit? is a platform for contemporary art, exhibiting over 800 artists since its creation in May 2016. Online, it operates as a gallery producing monthly exhibitions showcasing emerging to mid-career artists, hosting a roster of guest curators experimenting with the medium of the internet to interrogate a variety of concepts.

anti-materia
https://anti-materia.org/

2016– / 🇲🇽
Curator: Doreen A. Rios

[ANTI] MATERIA is a self-managed project that, since 2015, has sought to promote a new generation of digital artists through exhibitions and academic resources with open and free access, written in Spanish and, mainly, from Mexico.

Local Host
http://www.localhost.gallery/index.php/about/

2016– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Drew Nikonowicz

Localhost is an experimental exhibition platform. The space provides an opportunity to create exhibitions with lower material expenses and with a higher level of experimentation. In its first iteration, it was a virtual space accessible within Minecraft, both through an online server, and via downloadable exhibitions which allow offline viewing.

SKELF
https://skelf.org.uk/index.html

2016– / 🇬🇧
Curator: ?

Skelf is a virtual project space, accessible to anyone, everywhere. Existing entirely online since 2016, we have presented work by over 100 artists and writers. You can view these works in our archive. In 2019 we launched our new series of quarterly group exhibitions, each presented by a different guest curator.

This is Public Space
https://www.upprojects.com/projects/this-is-public-space/

2016–2017 / 🇬🇧
Curator: UP Projects

This is Public Space is a series of web commissions. The commissions are part of our wider programme which prioritises working with artists to make new work alongside interrogating what public art means in the 21st Century.

Galerie Galerie
www.galeriegalerieweb.com

2016– / 🇫🇷
Curators: Gabrielle Bernatchez (web integration), Marie-Charlotte Castonguay-Harvey (development & administration), Sophie Latouche (programming)

Galerie Galerie is an online platform for the production and distribution of digital and web art based in Tio’tià:ke/Montreal. Since 2016, Galerie Galerie invests the Internet as a space for research, creation and dissemination, and supports artists whose practice allies itself precisely with technological conjunctures.

Internet Moon Gallery
http://www.internetmoongallery.com/home.html

2016– / 🇪🇸
Curator: Manuel Minch

The Internet Moon Gallery platform emerges as a non-profit proposal to give support to the needs of artists who work through the Internet. Every full moon night a new exhibition is inaugurated in which artists and curators investigate and develop site-specific exhibition projects for virtual reality and 360 degree environments.

Net Art Anthology
https://anthology.rhizome.org/

2016–2019 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Rhizome

Net Art Anthology is an online exhibition created by Rhizome, a non-profit organisation dedicated to new media art. The website presents 100 works of net art history over a two-year period, staging one project per week. It challenges the scarcity of historical perspectives on often inaccessible works, by identifying, preserving, and presenting them.

2017

• Amazon Cash opens in USA and Canada
• “Fake news” is chosen as word of the year by the American Dialect Society
• Initial release of Beaker, a free and open-source web browser
• TikTok global launch

#exstrange
http://exstrange.com (archive)

2017 / 🇮🇹
Curators: Marialaura Ghidini & Rebekah Modrak

#exstrange was a live exhibition project that used the online marketplace eBay as a site of curatorial operation, artistic production and cultural exchange; a project that operated within the geographical boundaries enabled by the commercial platform the curators appropriated – the various ‘national’ eBay sites.

Unauthorized SFMOMA
https://sfmoma.show/#

2017 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Enar de Dios Rodríguez in collaboration with Lasse Scherffig & Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo

Similar to SFMOMA’s mission statement, Unauthorized SFMOMA Show was dedicated to making the art for our time a vital and meaningful part of public life. It was also guided by our commitment to fostering creativity and embracing new ways of seeing the world and the institutions that aim to represent it.

SUPER-INFORMATION-HIGH-MARKET
http://super-information-high-market.com/

2017 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Florian Kuhlmann

Shopping as an act of curation. Curation as an act of the accumulation of social capital. SUPER-INFORMATION-HIGH-MARKET is a pavilion structured like an online shop and it's up to you, the audience, to select the products aka artworks from the favorite art brands.

Unsolicited exhibition
http://unsolicited.website/Unsolicited_exhibition-Catalogue.pdf (archive)

2017 / 🇪🇸
Curator: Enar de Dios Rodriguez

An exhibition through e-mail that showcased advertisement messages from artists’ businesses to recipients that had not granted verifiable permission for this to occur.

Paper-Thin
https://www.paper-thin.org/

2017–2018 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Daniel Alexander Smith & Cameron Buckley

This is not a gallery. This is not a museum. This is not an institute. This is not a game. This is the space between virtual and material. This is Paper-Thin.

Internet Fame
http://clusterduck.space/internet-fame.html

2017–2018 / 🇮🇹 / 🇩🇪
Curators: Clusterduck & panke.gallery

Internet and social media are rapidly transforming the art system: a new generation of artists is using proprietary platforms to reach out to a global public, directly and in real time, bypassing traditional gatekeepers of the art establishment. The exhibition Internet Fame explored these transformations with over 35 artists, performers and digital creators.

x-temporary
https://x-temporary.org/index.html

2017–2018 / 🇩🇪
Curators: marenka krasomil in collaboration with Miriam LaRosa of curatingthecontemporary

X-temporary is an online residency space for artists and others* to propose ideas, develop concepts, open up a process, have fun, and more#

A V D
http://avd.codes/

2017–? / 🇬🇧
Curators: various

AVD is a digital art platform designed for mobile consumption. Curated selections can be viewed on Google Drive.

The Recombinants
https://www.neddam.info/madja-e-g-online-curator/ (archive)

2017– 2019 / 🇳🇱 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Madja Edelstein-Gomez

Can an exhibition be curated by an Artificial Intelligence? This challenge was taken up by Madja Edelstein Gomez for her exhibition “The Recombinants”. The participants who responded to an open call were carefully selected by sophisticated algorithms.

Green Cube Gallery
http://greencube.gallery/info/about

2017– / 🇮🇹
Curators: Guido Segni & Matìas Ezequiel Reyes

Green Cube Gallery is a nomadic online/offline exhibition space run by Guido Segni and Matìas Ezequiel Reyes. It aims to flow in and out of the digital screen in order to stress the limits and the relationship between virtual and real.

Off Site Project
http://www.offsiteproject.org

2017– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Pita Arreola-Burns & Elliott Burns

Off Site Project is an online curatorial practice which runs a programme of homepage exhibitions; downloadable ZIP shows; and a residency based in Google Maps.

OnScroll - Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/exhibit_onscroll/

2017 / 🇪🇪 / 🇳🇱
Curators: kert viiart & kristina ollek

This site-specific project engages with Instagram as an exhibition format and addresses its influence on the viewer, contemporary artistic practice and exhibition making.

Deep Dive
http://www.itskindof.com/info.html

2017– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Corey Bartle-Sanderson & Steven Gee

ITS KIND OF HARD TO EXPLAIN (IKO) is an artist and curatorial collective based in London that has been operating since 2017. They collaborate with and commission early career artists and writers in the UK on curated group exhibitions, online projects and printed media content.

aarea
http://www.aarea.co

2017– / 🇧🇷
Curators: Livia Benedetti & Marcela Vieira

aarea is an online platform founded in 2017 to showcase artworks created specifically for the Internet. aarea’s website excludes any fixed elements such as a logo, texts or links that are not a part of the featured artist’s work.

mor, Museum of Other Realities
https://www.museumor.com/

2017– / 🇨🇦
Curators: Colin Northway & Robin Stethem

An immersive social art showcase in VR, the Museum of Other Realities (MOR) is a place to connect, share, and experience virtual reality art with others.

First Look: Artists’ VR
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/artists-vr

2017 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Rhizome

First Look: Artists’ VR presents a group exhibition in the form of a mobile VR app developed by EEVO. This first-of-its-kind initiative from an art museum seeks to elevate VR in an artistic context as a rich emerging medium whose possibilities are still being tested and harnessed.

Piyenji Sticker Gallery
https://piyenji.com/

2017– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Hello Velocity

Piyenji is a miniature gallery: it showcases collections of stickers made by artists, animators, and illustrators, and features new collections on a bi-monthly basis. The phone-based Piyenji recontextualizes the notion of gallery in a highly personal and distributed manner, activating the viewer as a participant.

The Zium Garden
https://theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-garden

2017– / 🇦🇺
Curator: Michael Berto

The Zium Garden is a Museum Exploration Game filled with artwork and installations from artists around the world, working in various mediums and styles.

#MEMEPROPAGANDA (or #MEMEMANIFESTO)
http://memepropaganda.clusterduck.space/

2017– / 🇮🇹
Curator: Clusterduck

#MEMEPROPAGANDA is an IRL/URL exhibition project hosted by Green Cube Gallery. The show represents a reflection on the growing role of memes in digital society, critically examining their wide reaching impact on contemporary aesthetics, politics and academia.

2018

• Amazon Go store opens in Seattle
• Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
• Flipkart is acquired by Walmart
• Google announces it may start using link shorteners for all URLs in Google Chrome
• Google announces that its Chrome browser would mark HTTP sites as “not secure”
• Google Duplex, an AIfor conducting natural conversations, was announced
• Mozilla Hubs, a VR chatroom designed for every headset and browser, is launched
• Parler, social-networking service, that later became associated with Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and far-right extremists, was founded.

Just Browsing
http://iamjustbrowsing.com/

2018 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Joanne McNeil & Nicole Antebi

A series of video essays on Internet culture by Joanne McNeil. Each episode begins with a topic of inquiry and leads the audience through the narrator’s own investigation of overlapping subjects using books and a web browser.

Must See
https://thehmm.nl/dossier/dossier-0-archive/ (archive)

2018–2020 / 🇳🇱
Curators: various

The Hmm is an inclusive platform for internet cultures. Through real-life events, online editorials, expert advice, and educational programs, we reflect on people’s online behavior, the latest internet trends, and the mechanisms behind Big Tech companies and their impact on society. For Must See every month a different guest editor will select his or her must-see images.

LikeLike3D
http://likelike.org/shows/

2018– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Paolo Pedercini

LIKELIKE Online is expanding to the third dimension! Create a cute/repulsive avatar and hang out with friends and strangers in a stunningly realistic virtual recreation of our gallery. The show will feature six games experimenting with the first person perspective.

Digital Artist Residency (DAR)
https://digitalartistresidency.org/

2018– / 🇬🇧
Curator: Tom Milnes

Digital Artist Residency is an online platform which provides space for digital artists to create and display new artwork. The initiative aims to provide support for artwork created using digital processes, exploring the boundaries of art and technology.

Ypuccko Gallery
https://ypuccko.net/

2018– / 🇦🇷
Curator: Nico Lillo

Ypuccko Gallery explores possible future strategies and scenarios where contemporary artistic practices escape from the effects of a timeless-cognitive loop in which culture is dominated by neo-liberal capital. It reclaims the disappearance of the future by creating virtual environments where artists can articulate their discourses beyond a post-capitalist reality.

External Pages
https://externalpages.org/

2018– / 🇬🇧
Curator: Ana Meisel

External Pages is an online exhibition space, presenting digital projects inspired by anti-capitalist and xenofeminist thought. Every other month, we showcase an artist or collective who push the potential of viewing art on our browsers. We provide coding assistance for the artists who have full control over how the show is curated.

Floating Swarm
https://floating-swarm.hashbase.io/

2018– / 🇫🇷
Curator: Raphaël Bastide

Floating Swarm is a peer-to-peer web surf club where artists are invited to create pages hosted by themselves but linked together with a common navigation bar, following the structure of Webrings. This project should be visited using a peer to peer web browser such as Beaker.

2019

• Adobe Shockwave discontinued
• Google Art Zoom feature is added to Google Arts & Culture
• Introduction of AR integration in web browsers
• USA’s Do Not Track Act

The White Page Gallery/s
http://www.whitepagegallery.network/

2019–? / 🇮🇹
Curators: Anna Utopia Giordano, Zsolt Mesterhazy, Domenico Barra

The White Page Gallery/s are a distributed community and network made of independent online galleries in the format of web page hosted on the websites of artists, curators, academies, festivals and other art and cultural operators and aficionados.

arebyte on screen (AOS)
https://www.arebyte.com/aos

2019– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Various

Arebyte On Screen is a platform dedicated to artist videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions utilising digital formats. AOS invites web-based artists, digital artists and curators from around the world to experiment with new forms of creating, curating and presenting art online.

Footnotes on Equality
http://footnotesonequality.eu

2019–? / 🇳🇱
Curators: Alejandra Benítez Silva, Tegiye Birey, Zerrin Cengiz, Barbara Grabher, Lieke Hettinga, Wilmarie R. Pérez, Raluca Pinzari, Sara Verderi

Footnotes on Equality is an exhibition by the fifteen researchers of GRACE – Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe, in collaboration with designer Anja Groten and web-designer Joana Chicau. It centers around a multi-year project to build a collection of art and everyday objects that serve as indexes for a reflection on the cultural production of (in)equality.

Going Away.tv
https://www.goingaway.tv/

2019– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Marc Blazel & Alexander Harding with arebyte for The Wrong

Going Away.tv is an online platform hosting live streamed artists’ moving image 24/7, combining work from a variety of localities and backgrounds. At once embracing and critiquing the democratic nature of streaming platforms such as ‘Twitch’ and ‘Youtube Live’, ‘Going Away.tv’ will continuously present moving image and broadcasting works.

Emotional Interfaces
https://emotional-interfaces.com/

2019– / 🇫🇷
Curators: Virginie Tan & Astrid Lours-Riou

We invite artists and designers to reflect on the theme and its sub-themes, by producing online and offline exhibitions, as well as hosting Instagram residencies. Whether the events we produce are online or offline, we believe each experience should highlight the unique specificity of what digital art is.

The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine
https://whitney.org/artport-commissions/the-next-biennial/index.html

2019–2021 / 🇬🇧
Curators: UBERMORGEN, Leonardo Impett, Joasia Krysa

The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine is an inquiry into the relationship between curating and artificial intelligence. Unfolding as a series of machine learning experiments, the project is a collaboration between artists UBERMORGEN, digital humanist Leonardo Impett, and curator Joasia Krysa.

Café Internet
https://cafeinternet.github.io/taller-xyz/

2019– / 🇨🇴
Curator: Wilmer Rodriguez

Café Internet is an archival and curatorial project which records the dynamics and phenomena that connect the Internet, telecommunications and technology in general, with specific contexts. It pays particular attention to the possible futures and multiple realities of the digital world.

Gallery Gallery
https://www.gallerygallery.space/en/about-us/

2019– / 🇧🇬
Curators: Albena Baeva & Rene Beekman

Gallery Gallery is the first gallery that is exclusively focused on digital art in Bulgaria. Exhibitions are shown in a virtual exhibition space that is accessible non-stop, but only if you are close to the physical location of the gallery. An open WiFi network enables viewers to visit the exhibition using their own mobile devices.

Le Grand Trampolage
https://mythical-institution.org/an-outlook/le-grand-trampolage/curatorial.html (archive)

2019 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Jan Berger

An Outlook is the newest outlet of contemporary art practice affiliated with the idiosyncratic beliefs of the Mythical Institution. Hosting exhibitions featuring international artists, An Outlook provides a space for emergent and established practices.

2020

• Amazon Luna, a cloud gaming platform, is launched
• Adobe announced it will no longer update or maintain Flash
• Covid-19 contact-tracing apps introduced
• Clubhouse invite-only app launches
• Google Maps Live View is introduced
• Hospitality industry uses QR codes en-masse across the globe
• India bans TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps
• the term “new normal” is coined, signalling digital transformation in society and the economy due to Covid-19
• Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is finalised

biennale.NO
https://biennale.no/

2020–2021 / 🇳🇴
Curator: Bjørn Magnhildøen & Zsolt Mesterhazy (noemata)

A contemporary art biennale that doesn’t take place, with works that don’t exist; structured as a decentralized network of collaborative nodes, projects and works.

Time Out of Joint
http://fjroxjgxhmd2ymp2.onion

2020–2021 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Eva & Franco Mattes

Time Out of Joint is an online exhibition taking place on the Darknet, a location at the “periphery” of the Internet, where time operates at a slow pace and pages load unhurriedly. New works will be added every two weeks and are available to be seen, copied, reused.

Yerevan Biennial Digital Exhibition
https://yerevanbiennial.org/digital-exhibition

2020–2021 / 🇦🇲
Curator: Lorenzo Fusi

The Time Complex exhibition brings together artists from all over the world whose practices challenge linear readings of time. They do so by confronting or mimicking disciplines created for measuring time according to a logic of Progress (i.e. archaeology, art history, anthropology), a Western notion used as a colonial tool of cultural dominion or assimilation.

Well Now What The Fuck
http://wellnow.wtf/?fbclid=IwAR3CVl83Ie1Og9-vI8u4_OzToWiEH-XEFBq7FEMoleyjN2SXj6odD7BBQXU

2020 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Faith Holl&, Lorna Mills, & Wade Wallerstein

Museums are closed. School is cancelled. The world is shut off and we’re stuck indoors. In spite of everything, Silicon Valet is pleased to present Well Now WTF? An online exhibition featuring 100+ artists with moving image practices.

Final Hot Desert
https://www.instagram.com/finalhotdesert/ or https://finalhotdesert.com (archive)

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Ben Sang

Final Hot Desert is a nomadic contemporary art space based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Exhibitions are held in both formal and informal art spaces with different degrees of accessibility and permanence. The documentation of the exhibitions is distributed through Instagram.

Inter.archive
https://inter-archive.oncurating-space.org/

2020–? / 🇨🇭
Curators: Giovanna Bragaglia, Miwa Negoro & Camille Regli

inter:archive is an ongoing and experimental research project in the form of a digital platform dedicated to explore and interact with the multiple facets of intersectional feminism.

SURPRISINGLY THIS RATHER WORKS
https://www.koeniggalerie.com/exhibitions/28709/surprisingly-this-rather-works/

2020– / 🇩🇪
Curators: Anika Meier, König Gallery

With SURPRISINGLY THIS RATHER WORKS König Gallery presents an exhibition of digital art by Manuel Rossner that is both a spatial intervention in and a virtual expansion of the physical gallery.

Post Hoc, An Online Art Show
https://nickm.com/post/2020/05/post-hoc-an-online-art-show/

2020 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Nick Montfort

There was no pre-established theme for Post Hoc, which was prompted by our inability to get to IRL galleries and museums. Artists were simply asked for any digital image they considered an artwork. The works in the show are all from 2020. I solicited 1000–1200 character responses to each piece.

FLOW OUT
https://www.isthisitisthisit.com/flow-out-1

2020– / 🇹🇷
Curators: Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu, Mine Kaplangı)

This online exhibition features works by Istanbul Queer Art Collective. You can watch the video of us reading the collectively written text FLOW OUT, as well as click on the references compiled to create the hypertext version of this Dadaist exercise.

EPOCH
https://epoch.gallery/

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curators: EPOCH Gallery

EPOCH is an artist-run virtual experiment.

Do not link
http://donotlink.org/index2020.html

2020 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Dirk Paesmans & Bob Bicknell-Knight

An online exhibition concerned with ideas of virality and data distortion, featuring artworks and external links that explore the embedded hyperreality of our networked society. The show takes the format of an infinite scroll, an ever-evolving list of artworks and ephemera, referencing the habit of hoarding bookmarks or digital tabs.

accès)s( cultures électronique
http://xx.acces-s.org/

2020 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Thomas Cheneseau

On the occasion of the 20th edition of the festival, Accès) s (electronic cultures is inviting 20 international artists for an exhibition that will take you through these 20 years by discovering 20 web-native works that have written the history of net.art.

upstream.gallery
https://upstream.gallery/

2020– / 🇳🇱
Curators: various

Online platform upstream.gallery dedicated to a series of online exhibitions, developed, curated and participated by artists that belong to the top of the digital artists.

Come Closer Pt.1
https://online.officeimpart.com/

2020– / 🇩🇪
Curators: various (interface by Constant Dullaart)

The artists of the exhibition "Come Closer Pt.1“ refer in different ways to the topic of closeness and in their works they deal with questions of empathy, emotions, self-reflection or self-optimization.

WE=LINK: 十个小品 Ten Easy Pieces
http://we-link.chronusartcenter.org

2020– / 🇨🇳
Curators: Zhang Ga in collaboration with others

The exhibition “WE=LINK: 十个小品 Ten Easy Pieces” is being presented online in collaboration with a network of other hosting institutions. The works included in this exhibition are network native, exploring the potential of mobile technologies, particularly with a creative and critical appropriation of various social media platforms.

World Wide Webb
https://webb.game/

2020 / 🇩🇪
Curators: Anika Meier & Thomas Webb

The WORLD WIDE WEBB is a virtual world the digital visitor enters through the browser on a smartphone. It is a multiplayer video game, a digital exhibition space and a world full of art and characters the visitor is invited to interact with.

stick.t.me
https://netzkunst.berlin/stm/

2020 / 🇩🇪
Curators: Zentrum für Netzkunst (Tereza Havlíková, Paloma Oliveira, Anneliese Ostertag, Tabea Rossol, Sakrowski)

stick.t.me presents stickers and sticker sets that have been produced by 19 different artists and collectives who have participated in the online artist-in-residency program organized by the Zentrum für Netzkunst on the Telegram messenger app. The sets can be collected online on Telegram or offline in a limited-edition scrapbook available at panke.gallery.

HeK net works
https://www.hek.ch/en/program/events-en/event/hek-net-works-iocose-moving-tasks-forward.html

2020– / 🇨🇭
Curators: various

Every month, HeK shows a net-based project created especially for our digital series HeK Net Works. The series began during the lockdown period at a weekly pace, and now goes on with a monthly contribution.

Art at a Time Like This
https://artatatimelikethis.com/

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Barbara Pollack & Anne Verhallen

Art at a Time Like This is a nonprofit online artspace, founded by independent curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen. ATLT is a platform for the free exchange of ideas and an outlet for artists to articulate swift responses to current events, both online and through public space activations.

Nextmuseum.io
Nextmuseum.io

2020– / 🇩🇪
Curators: various

Shaping the museum of the future together: curating, discussing & experimenting! Museums and cultural institutions are undergoing a change. That is why we are starting a movement for more democracy in the art world: nextmuseum.io, the platform for co-curation and co-creation.

Tech of the Sacred
https://sacred.display.cz/en

2020 / 🇨🇿
Curators: Lukáš Likavčan & Display – Association for Research & Collective Practice

The task of the research exhibition Technologies of the Sacred is to rethink the boundaries between technology and religion or mysticism. What is it that we should be mourning, and what songs of praise should we be singing to the world to come?

INBTWN - In Between
https://www.inbtwn.it/index.html

2020– / 🇮🇹
Curator: Claudia D'Alonzo

Through four distinct artistic interventions the INBTWN – In Between programme develops a reflection on the relationship between bodies and technologies. The website hosts web-native artworks or formats re-arranged for the internet, together with projects departing from the online and inviting to perform the space, that of physical bodies or the public sphere.

Foam Talent I Digital
https://talent.foam.org

2020– / 🇳🇱
Curator: Foam

Foam presents an all-access online exhibition celebrating the works of young artists shaping the future of photography. The digital exhibition showcases extended portfolio work, including video artwork, accompanying soundscapes or music, audio voice-overs and video interviews.

Real-Time Constraints
https://www.arebyte.com/real-time-constraints (archive)

2020 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Rebecca Edwards & Luba Elliott

Real-Time Constraints is a group exhibition featuring works by artists working within the realms of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and interventions in web-based platforms. The works look critically at the current state of automated and autonomic computing to provide alternative narratives to data-driven and algorithmic approaches, referencing fake-news, gender bias and surveillance.

Silicon Valet
https://www.siliconvalet.org/

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curators: Faith Holl&, Lorna Mills, Wade Wallerstein

Silicon Valet is a new parking lot for digital art and expanded practice. We are a virtual gallery and online exhibition space featuring a digital artist residency.

Vous êtes ICI
https://hubs.mozilla.com/VnMK4vT/vous-etes-ici (archive)

2020 / 🇫🇷
Curator: Valentin Godard

Vous êtes ICI is an exhibition on MozillaHub that brings together Olia Lialina and Jean Le Gac, Raphael Rozendaal and Yves Klein, Annie Abrahams and Djamel Tatah, Alexei Shulgin and Ophélie Demurger, Nicolas Frespech and Mimmo Rotella and Seumboy Vrainom and Gaelle Loth.

Transmissions
https://www.twitch.tv/transmissions2020

2020 / 🇬🇧
Curators: Anne Duffau, Hana Noorali & Tai Shani

This online platform commissions artists, writers and thinkers to share their work online in response to the postponement and cancellations of many exhibitions, opportunities and subsequent fees. It invites artists to share their work within a classic DIY TV show format.

The Archive to Come

https://www.carlagannis.com/

2020 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Clark Buckner & Carla Gannis

An exhibition of short time-based works On-line, In Social VR, and In the Gallery – on MozillaHubs.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Kittengale (MoCAK)
https://www.juliamaiuri.com/mocak

2020 / 🇺🇸
Curators: Julia Maiuri & Joolz, her avatar within the game

The Museum of Contemporary Art Kittengale (MoCAK) is a virtual art space in the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Programming is facilitated by Julia Maiuri and Joolz, her avatar within the game. Maiuri pushes the limitations of the game to curate weekly fantasy exhibitions by real-life artists.

N menos 1
https://www.nmenos1.xyz/public/

2020– / 🇨🇴
Curators: Juan Covelli & Lina Useche

Nmenos1 is a web platform that explores and promotes artistic practices based on digital and post-digital media. Through curatorship, media archeology and critical text, it seeks to generate a space for reflection on digital culture in the region.

Specter
https://specter.world/

2020– / 🇸🇮 / 🇳🇱
Curators: Agnes Momirski & Georgia Kareola

Specter investigates digital culture, spiritual practices, scientific theory and design ideas to relish humanness, sentience and sensuality in our human-tech playgrounds. It creates a post-disciplinary community through recurring events, as well as publications, exhibitions and an open-source knowledge base.

New Art City
https://newart.city/

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curators: d0n.xyz, Martin Mudenda Bbela, Christina Lelon, Benny Lichtner & Sammie Veeler

New Art City’s mission is to develop an accessible toolkit for building virtual installations that show born-digital artifacts alongside digitized works of traditional media. Our curation and product design prioritize those who are disadvantaged by structural injustice. An inclusive and redistributive community is as important to our project as the toolkit itself.

Lost In A Garden Of Clouds
https://cloud.radical-openness.org/lost.html

2020 / 🇦🇹
Curators: Davide Bevilacqua, Us(c)hi Reiter in collaboration with AMRO Community Members

Lost in a garden of clouds is a virtual exhibition that extends the digital program of AMRO20 ‘Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes’. As the festival moved online, so did the planned show and this initiated an exciting process of transformation for both the exhibition and the artworks in it.

Third Space Network
https://thirdspacenetwork.com/about/

2020– / 🇺🇸
Curator: Randal Packer

The Third Space Network is an artist-driven Internet platform for staging creative dialogue, live performance and activist projects: empowerment through the act of broadcast media. It explores the Internet as a theater of the future, of live artistic experimentation, activism and social change.

Screen Walks
https://screenwalks.com/

2020– / 🇨🇭
Curators: Jon Uriarte, Marco De Mutiis

Screen Walks is a new series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene.

FitArt
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1515130239

2020– / 🇨🇭
Curators: Nina Roehrs & Damjanski

FitArt provides art shows on your phone in the form of a fitness plan. The application is designed as a series of workouts, featuring exercises created by artists.

e-XHIBITION
http://www.andypicci.com/e-xhibition

2020 / 🇨🇭
Curator: Andy Picci

A museum exclusively visible through an Instagram filter. Move your smartphone to the right and your virtual double moves to the right. Your mobile becomes the best ally of a virtual reality experience without any headset or equipment.

The Art Happens Here
http://www.annkakultys.com/online/statement/

2020–? / 🇬🇧
Curators: Annka Kultys

Online platform dedicated to the showcasing of digital art in its natural habitat.

Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum
https://www.mwoods.org/Art-Is-Still-Here-A-Hypothetical-Show-for-a-Closed-Museum

2020–2020 / 🇨🇳
Curators: Victor Wang

Conceived as a long-term visual project that will virtually occupy both M WOODS museum locations (798 and Hutong), this experimental exhibition will unfold over several weeks: different galleries of the museum will be open virtually, with artworks presented online through the museum’s online platforms – Weibo, WeChat, Instagram and Facebook.

Virtual Factory
https://virtual-factory.co.uk/#

2020– / 🇬🇧
Curators: Manchester International Festival

A series of online projects inspired by the architecture and ambition of The Factory.

2021

• Alphabet Workers Union was founded with over 700 members
• DarkMarket has been taken offline by a Europol-coordinated international operation
• Lenovo ThinkReality smartglasses are announced
• Neeva, ad free search engine is launched
• “NFT” is Collins Dictionary's word of the year
• Signal sees 7.5 million downloads in 4 days after WhatsApp says it will share data with Facebook

ART HOMEPAGE FAIR
https://arthomepagefair.net/

2021– / 🇯🇵
Curator: exonemo & IDPW (I.D. Password, affectionately known as 'I pass')

ART HOMEPAGE FAIR is an online fair that brings together art homepages, or “homemade” webpages. Creators from different backgrounds are invited to exhibit one homepage each on the site. Once launched, visitors will be able to browse the entries and communicate with creators.

Studio visit
https://5e.centre.ch/en/works/?id=454

2021 / 🇮🇹
Curator: Domenico Quaranta

Studio Visit invites artists to allow us an access to their desktop studio and their working process.

Le Biennali Invisibili
https://lebiennaliinvisibili.org

2021 / 🇩🇪
Curator: Alfons Hug

Le Biennali Invisibili is a project that embraces fiction and pseudo-reality as a framework for curatorial pursuit, as a series of virtual events, proposing and critiquing the conventional celebration of the art & design community.

CIVA
https://civa.at/

2021– / 🇦🇹
Curators: Eva Fischer, Martina Menegon & Angie Shahira Pohl

Vienna’s new media art festival aims to show the potential of artistic approaches in interaction with science and technology. Its desire is to build a strong network, to be a well-functioning platform for a growing international community. Visitors are engaged to participate via services including Discord, Mozilla Hubs, Twitch, Instagram, Zoom.

Ergo Proxy - Muestra virtual
http://uca.edu.ar/es/pabellon-de-bellas-artes/ergo-proxy

2021– / 🇦🇷
Curator: Merlina Rañi

Within a digital desert, four works are installed that reflect on different aspects of experience: the human body, self-perception, gesture, expression. They explore, from abstraction, different issues related to the processes of digitalization.

Synthetic Corpo-Reality
https://hubs.mozilla.com/MS8EuTz/meet-digital-culture-center

2021 / 🇺🇸
Curator: Julie Walsh

The exhibition is actually an exhibition inside of an exhibition. When the viewers walk into the space they see artwork displayed on the walls. After clicking on the view room links the audience will see the artwork fully unveiled.

The Broken Timeline (TBT) presents historical exhibition projects that were curated online. Inevitably partial and subjective, TBT burrows back in time to present a lineage of web-based curatorial projects that are too often unseen, neglected or ignored by the mainstream artworlds and their discourses. TBT was compiled by Marialaura Ghidini, Gaia Tedone and Annet Dekker.

Contact us about The Broken Timeline

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TBT is also published in the book
Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation
by Annet Dekker (Valiz 2021)

The Broken Timeline

The Broken Timeline

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

ART COM ELECTRONIC NETWORK (ACEN)

people.well.com/user/couey/artcom/leonardo91.html 1986–1990 / 🇺🇸 Curators: Carl Loeffler and Ted Truck

BAD INFORMATION

people.well.com/user/jmalloy/badinfo/bad.html 1986–1990 / 🇺🇸Curator: Judy Malloy

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

C@C–NAVIGATOR www.evagrubinger.com/texts/eva-grubinger (archive) 1993–1997 / 🇩🇪 Curators: Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy

ARTNETWEB artnetweb.com 1993–1997 / 🇺🇸 Curators: Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy

MOCA.VIRTUAL.MUSEUM moca.virtual.museum 1993– / 🇺🇸 Curators: Don Archer and Bob Dodson

1994

ÄDA 'WEB www.adaweb.com 1994–1998 / 🇺🇸Curators: John Borthwick and Benjamin Weil

PLEXUS: OMNIZONE

https://plexus.org/

1994–1998 / 🇺🇸Curators: Yu Yeon Kim & Stephen Pusey

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum https://www.lhham.com.sg/

1994– / 🇸🇬Curator: Lin Hsin Hsin

1995

Hell.com Hell.com 1995–2009 / 🇺🇸Curator: Kenneth Aronson

SITO https://www.sito.org/help/00/00.html 1995–2019 / 🇺🇸Curator: Ed Stastny

Dia Art - Web Projects http://www.diaart.org/artist_web_projects 1995– / 🇺🇸Curators: Lynne Cooke & Sarah Tucker

Hyper-X Online Gallery http://www.altx.com/hyperx/ 1995–2007 / 🇺🇸Curators: Marisa Olson & Abe Linkoln

Xcult http://xcult.org/ 1995–2016 / 🇨🇭Curator: Reinhard Storz

Parallel https://va.com.au/parallel/x1/index.html 1995 / 🇦🇺 Curators: Virtual Artists & Hewson/Walker