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You Are Here: Art After the Internet is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the Internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Responding to an era that has increasingly chosen to dub itself as 'post-internet', this collective text traces a potted narrative exploring the relationship of the Internet to art practices from the early millennium to the present day. The book positions itself as a provocation on the current state of cultural production, relying on first-person accounts from artists, writers and curators as the primary source material. The book raises urgent questions about how we negotiate the formal, aesthetic and conceptual relationship of art and its effects after the ubiquitous rise of the Internet.
About the Author
Dr Omar Kholeif is a writer and curator. He currently holds the post of Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and teaches visual arts and art history at the University of Chicago. Prior to this, he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, as well as Senior Curator at Cornerhouse and HOME, Manchester, and Senior Editor of Ibraaz Publishing. Previously he headed up the of Art and Technology division at SPACE, London (where he was co-director of The White Building, London's centre for art and technology) and Curator at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool.
Kholeif has also been Artistic Director at the Arab British Centre, London and founding director of the UK's Arab Film Festival. In 2012, he was a co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial. Kholeif writes for the international press and curates projects internationally. He was a founding editor of Portal 9, an Arabic-English journal of urbanism and architecture. His bestselling books include, You Are Here: Art After the Internet (2014) and Moving Image (2015)
He has curated over 100 projects including the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, the FOCUS sector at the Armory Show, New York, and the Abraaj Group Art Prize. Kholeif holds degrees from the University of Glasgow and the Royal College of Art, London as well as a PhD from the University of Reading. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. He can be reached through his website, www.everythingok.co.uk.
