Websites, blogs, social media, and databases have become new forms of interaction and communication, giving rise to a new visual language and conceptual constructs. Despite their apparent accessibility and openness, the online environment has not become a utopian space of freedom. It has not only inherited all the “illnesses” of social structures, but also generated new hierarchical and totalitarian systems.

We must not only reflect on the technical possibilities of online platforms but also ask questions about their political subtext. What kind of critical potential can artists and curators create by using online platforms? Are we talking about new structures, relationships, and the politics of interaction?

What does the shift of the exhibition space into the digital realm add or take away?

Topics covered:

• Changing roles of the viewer, curator, and artist, as well as the location of the exhibition;
• Historical narrative: modernists, situationists, telematic art;
• Stages of internet art and the emergence of the grey zone between online and offline;
• Emerging exhibition concepts, discourses, and strategies are new architectures, the “special theory of relativity” of exhibitions, affective and immersive online spaces, processuality, and “slow curating”;
• Projects implemented by artists on online platforms since the 2010s: from the search for a new visual language to the shaping of affective states and the creation of political gestures.