JODI, Constant Dullaart and Rafaël Rozendaal part of group show at ZKM: Choose Your Filter!
JODI, Constant Dullaart and Rafaël Rozendaal part of group show at ZKM: Choose Your Filter!
JODI, Constant Dullaart and Rafaël Rozendaal are part of group exhibition Choose Your Filter!, which opens 1 February at ZKM Karlsruhe! The exhibition runs until 24 August, 2025.
The exhibition Choose your Filter! Browser Art Since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web offers fresh insights into 30 years of the development of alternative browsers. It presents a wide variety of artistic takes on what cyberspace is and what users can do with it.
Web browsers are our gateways to the World Wide Web/Internet: they interpret the code of websites, display texts, images, or videos, and make it possible for us to use the Internet in the first place. As such, they shape how we experience this data space and determine the ways in which we interact with the Internet. Initially, they were developed mainly at universities, but from 1995 onwards development flourished through the commercial sector, due to the rapid economic expansion of the Web.
The exhibition demonstrates that the Internet can actually have many different faces, depending on concept, task, technical sophistication, and aesthetic choice. But whichever browser we choose, it brings with it a raft of conceptual filters that determine what we see, how we see it, and above all what we don't see.
Choose Your Filter! is part of a long history of presenting and collecting Internet art at the ZKM, which started with net_condition in 1999, the world's first exhibition dedicated entirely to net art. Numerous historical works have been painstakingly restored for this exhibition by the participating artists and the ZKM team, allowing them to be seen again for the first time in many years. The exhibition is based on two research projects on Internet art and artistic browser applications conducted at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is accompanied by scholarly publications.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Tapestries from the Abstract Browsing by Rafaël Rozendaal will be on display and websites made by JODI and Constant Dullaart
Images:
1. Abstract Browsing 22 01 01 (Dropbox), Rafaël Rozendaal (2022) - installed at Upstream Gallery
2. Wrongbrowser 5, JODI (2001)
3. Therevolvinginternet.com, Constant Dullaart (2010)