Essay by ÉRIC TRONCY
éric troncy is a french art critic, curator, cofounder of the contemporary art publication frog, and director of the art centre le condortium in dijon
I don’t know much about “post-Internet” art. To all appearances, there has indeed been a lot of art made after the advent of the Internet. That much is beyond dispute. But I see nothing like a form of art whose qualities we might ascribe directly to the Internet’s existence. We might cynically compare the ephemeral images of Instagram to those of the artistic productions commonly called “works” that steadily come and go with the market’s changing tastes. And infer that the incredibly frivolous works of “post-Internet” art aspire to little more than a fleeting moment of glory. Highly desirable, fleeting, and frivolous (frivolous especially when they purport not to be): in this sense, yes, there is a new form of…