POST-INTERNET AS POST-APPARATUS

Abstract

In my paper I want suggest an alternative reading of Post-Internet art that asks for its relationship to photography rather than to the net.art of the late 1990s. Photographic practices play a crucial role in many Post-Internet works and possibly reveal more about the current state of photography than photography itself. The artists discussed here address a issues as the status of the digital photograph as an object, the documentary role of photography in relation to non-photographic art practices, and the effects of the Internet on vernacular photography. In a second step I try to rethink our understanding of the camera as an apparatus. I do so buy looking at two works that are contemporary with but do not belong to Post-Internet art as it is usually conceived and by drawing on the Soviet movement of factography and the writings of Vilém Flusser.