Mass effect: art and the internet in the twenty-first century

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Essays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art forms engaged with the Internet. Do you believe in users?/Turing complete user / Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied -- coming soon: ebay paypal blogs the internet / Cory Arcangel -- Doing assembly : the art of Cory Arcangel / Tina Kukielski -- Dispersion / Seth Price -- Two statements on Carnivore / Alexander R. Galloway -- Digressions from the memory of a minor encounter / Raqs Media Collective -- The different worlds of Cao Fei / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- Net aesthetics 2.0 conversation, New York City, 2006: Part 1 of 3 / Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Michael Connor, Caitlin Jones, Marisa Olson, and Wolfgang Staehle, with Lauren Cornell, Moderator -- Aleksandra Domanović and Oliver Laric in conversation with Caitlin Jones -- A brief history of And/Or Gallery / Paul Slocum -- Internet explorers / Ceci Moss -- Lost not found : the circulation of images in digital visual culture / Marisa Olson -- "We did it ourselves!" aka "My favorites": volume 1, 2005 to 2009 / Guthrie Lonergan -- Excerpts from Post internet / Gene McHugh -- In the long tail / Mark Leckey -- Everybody's autobiography / Alex Kitnick -- A theorem / Paul Chan -- The centaur and the hummingbird / Ed Halter -- The visibility wars / Rebecca Solnit -- Trevor Paglen in conversation with Lauren Cornell -- What to do with pictures / David Joselit -- Net aesthetics 2.0 conversation, New York City, 2008: Part 2 of 3 / Petra Cortright, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Tom Moody, Tim Whidden, and Damon Zucconi, with Ed Halter, Moderator -- Citizens reporting and the fabrication of collective memory / Jens Maier-Rothe, Dina Kafafi, and Azin Feizabadi -- International art English / Alix Rule and David Levine -- Chronicle of a traveling theory / Alexander Provan -- Arcades, mall rats, and Tumblr thugs / Jesse Darling -- Next-level spam / John Kelsey -- Digital divide : contemporary art and new media / Claire Bishop -- Sweeping, dumb and aggressively ignorant!: revisiting 'Digital Divide' / Claire Bishop -- Art workers : between utopia and the archive / Boris Groys -- Black vernacular : reading new media / Martine Syms -- A selection from DISimages: new stock options / DIS Magazine -- Made of the same stuff : Ryan Trecartin's art of transformation / Michael Wang -- Post-Net aesthetics conversation, London, 2013: Part 3 of 3 / Josephine Berry Slater, Rózsa Farkas, Harm van den Dorpel, and Ben Vickers, with Karen Archey, Moderator -- Here I am : telepresent subjecthood in the work of Lotte Rose Kjaer Skau / Morgan Quaintance -- Internet state of mind : where can medium specificity be found in digital art? / Domenico Quaranta -- Too much world: is the Internet dead? / Hito Steyerl -- Bodies in space : identity, sexuality, and the abstraction of the digital and physical / Karen Archey.