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Author Wasielewski, Amanda, author.

Title From city space to cyberspace : art, squatting, and Internet culture in the Netherlands / Amanda Wasielewski.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cities and cultures
Cities and cultures.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Cracking the City -- 2. Cracking Painting -- 3. Cracking the Ether -- 4. Passageways -- Conclusion: The Digital City -- Primary and Archival Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The narrative of the birth of internet culture often focuses on the achievements of American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, but there is an alternative history of internet pioneers in Europe who developed their own model of network culture in the early 1990s. Drawing from their experiences in the leftist and anarchist movements of the '80s, they built DIY networks that give us a glimpse into what internet culture could have been if it were in the hands of squatters, hackers, punks, artists, and activists. In the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squatting. Untethered from profit motives, these artists and activists aimed to create a decentralized tool that would democratize culture and promote open and free exchange of information.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Art and the Internet -- Netherlands.
Art and the Internet.
Netherlands.
Public art -- Netherlands.
Public art.
COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wasielewski, Amanda. From City Space to Cyberspace. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2021
ISBN 9789048553723 (electronic book)
9048553725 (electronic book)
9789463725453
9463725458