Internet - art : from the birth of the Web to the rise of NFTs / Omar Kholeif.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude: Time is just a memory. What's in a name? -- Beginnings: from here to there to everywhere -- 1989: the year that changed the world -- Will this destroy us? -- Time machine: pioneering anarchists -- The rise of the digital -- Living media -- You and me and everyone we know: find me in an ocean of images -- The possibilities of a digital culture -- The shape of the future -- Is the Earth a scorched cable? -- We are the metaverse: a parting verse.

"Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the Internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital. The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Naim June Paik, Heather Philipson, and Wu Tang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future"--