1st Edition

From City Space to Cyberspace Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands

By Amanda Wasielewski Copyright 2021
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER 1: CRACKING THE CITY, CHAPTER 2: CRACKING PAINTIN, CHAPTER 3: CRACKING THE ETHER, CHAPTER 4: PASSAGEWAYS, CONCLUSION: The Digital City, PRIMARY AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Biography

Amanda Wasielewski is a researcher in Art History at Stockholm University. She is the author of Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers (2018) and has taught social media and internet studies at the University of Amsterdam, architectural history at the Spitzer School of Architecture, and modern art history at Lehman College in New York.