Electronic Superhighway review – 50 years of internet sex, stars and roadkill
by Adrian Searle from Technology | The Guardian on (#127Y4)
Whitechapel Gallery, London
This uneven, fascinating and terrifying show presents a history of internet art in a series of snapshots - and a signpost that things have just begun
Electronic Superhighway is a mess of monitors and post-internet paintings, real dumb objects and unreal dumb intimacies. Noisy and confusing, there's lots of sex, selfies, manipulated images, YouTube comedy acts and Jill Magid's up-skirt camera attached to her shoe. It is hard to know where to begin.
Related: Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first
Continue reading...