Mission

    .net  art is quickly becoming one of the most pervasive  creative practices among culture workers today. Institutions such as The Whitney,  The Dia Foundation, The MOMA,  The SFMOMA, and The Walker Arts Center are just some of the few larger cultural institutions that exhibit, commission, and effectively canonize .net art practices. But more often than not, major museums are exhibiting .net outside of the context in-and-by which it was created, thus causing a problematic and paradoxical dilemma for .net art exhibition. The Internet Museum posits that the exhibition of a .net artwork in a traditional museum setting is antithetical to .net art creation, and places this position at the foundation of The Internet Museum’s curatorial exploration. 

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 50th Venice Biennial 2003

    Currently several models of .net art exhibition are being explored. Few escape the simplistic style or simulation of a real world exhibition space, and even fewer actually curate works into the context of a thesis driven exhibition. 

Image taken of an art gallery in Second Life

    It is the ambition of The Internet Museum to explore the Internet as an infinite archive of free information, and to expamine the curatorial role of contextualizing this information within net exhibitions.

    

    The Internet Museum was founded by independent curator Mike Bianco in 2007.

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