![]() ![]() Arvida Byström, Upskirt Image: Arvida Byström The Belgian artist bent the blue Facebook "F" into a crowbar, and added finger holes to McDonald's golden arches. Now the logo looks like brass knuckles. The symbols of the internet age along with its modern consumer world counterparts provide a focus for Tom Galle's work. The rise of social media, however, has dramatically boosted the number of viewers of digital art - not least thanks to the fact that nowadays everyone seems to own a smartphone with internet access. Bartholl's room installation reflects the history of net art, which existed even long before the internet became accessible to a mass audience. The Berlin-based concept artist converted actual Internet cafés into galleries by using the computers for short-term exhibitions. Images flicker across a handful of screens, recalling the "speed shows" created by Aram Bartholl. The show kicks off with an internet-age exhibit that has already become obsolete by now: an original row of seats from a Berlin Internet café. Is it necessary to print out digital art to show visitors what young, online-influenced artists are up to? "We didn't do that," says Meier, pointing out that this wouldn't have been necessary because the works exhibited are as vivid as they are unusual. Using the good old website seems to have become a thing of the past. What distinguishes all these works is that the visual art is in a place where the audience already frequent: primarily on Instagram. Social media have actually been part of their working lives for quite some time now - as is proven by the approximately 50 video installations, sculptures, photographs and paintings by 35 predominantly young artists at the Leipzig exhibition "Link in Bio." ![]() ![]() Using social media has long become part of many artists' everyday lives, says curator Anika Meier at the Leipzig Fine Arts Museum. ![]()
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