RafaelFajardo

While right to query the impact that the Internet has played in art production, Bishop – as pointed out by New Museum curator Lauren Cornell and critic Brian Droitcour in a letter published in Artforum’s January issue – fails to realize the pertinent timing of her question. In response, she points out that she was limiting her analysis to the ‘mainstream’ art world rather than trying to provide an exhaustive survey of new forms of digital practice, which she admits are outside of her remit and expertise. To the few artists – such as Frances Stark, Thomas Hirschhorn and Ryan Trecartin – who Bishop notes are producing work that ‘confronts the question of the digital’, we might add a number of artists from a younger generation, all of whom make work that questions, uses or engages directly with the digital world that we find ourselves increasingly embedded within. Artists such as Trisha Baga, Lucas Blalock (who is featured in this issue), Simon Denny, Aleksandra Domanović, Yngve Holen, Keller/Kosmas (AIDS 3D), Oliver Laric, Katja Novitskova, Jon Rafman and Timur Si-Qin – to name but a few – all take the social condition afforded by the digital revolution as a primary subject.