https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing85/
https://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures2016/text.html
http://reas.com/compendium_text/
https://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures2016/map.html
check those with power, and achieve some modicum of social justice for people that are always already criminalized
“However, not all Net Art is focused uniquely on itself. Many artists employ IT tools to convey strong messages of social or political nature and create critical debate around hot topic issues. This is the case of Darius Kazemi’s Last Words. A clear political statement against capital punishment, the project consists of a bot that accesses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice archive of all the last-word statements made by deaths row inmates, ultimately excerpting the sentences that include the word ‘love’.”
Shred the Web! An Alternative web browser that turns web pages into digital confetti. At a time when the web browser struggled against print metaphors like magazine and newspapter to find it’s own identity, The Shredder revealed the “soft” nature of the web. Markup, text, code, images and links are scattered across the screen like an instant Jackson Pollack. The raw material of the web, revealed, torn and tossed onto a heap.
https://www.newrafael.com/random-fear-in-kunsthal-rotterdam/
https://www.newrafael.com/complex-computational-compositions/
https://www.newrafael.com/on-and-on-exhibition-at-kostyal-stockholm/
https://www.newrafael.com/soft-focus-exhibition-at-mu-eindhoven/
https://www.newrafael.com/popular-screen-sizes/
“The Internet versus the gallery
‘When people asked what I did in the past ten years, I had a simple answer: I create art in the form of websites. ‘ Nowadays, Rozendaal does much more: his physical and digital works emerge simultaneously and influence each other. Within that fluid practice, exhibitions constitute important moments: ‘Because I do not have a studio, I almost never see my physical works; in that sense they are more virtual to me than the websites that I can watch at any time. I see gallery exhibitions as an opportunity to examine the materiality of my work and to experience it with a different concentration. Where the Internet is about distraction, art in a gallery is about introspection, calmness and tranquility.’ Moreover, Rozendaal sees no hierarchy between his websites and physical works. ‘The experience that you have when you are at home using Abstract Browsing on your computer is as authentic as viewing one of the tapestries in a gallery. From my point of view: the Internet is like a waterfall, an exhibition more like an aquarium’.”

http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/html_color_codes/statement.html
“If the great Formalist experiment of the 1950s and 1960s both pointed to and justified an exploration of the most fundamental elements of painting, and presented these findings visually in the form of large canvasses of line, shape, and color, I wondered if there was a parallel to be found for digital art? Could one use the ideas of Formalism’s greatest proponent, Clement Greenberg, to justify and ground the objectless digital object?
…What are the fundamental characteristics of digital art, and more specifically, of net art? Can we strip these formless objects down to their most basic elements and still see them function as art objects? If so, what would those objects look like? And is there a way to escape the familiarity of our daily interaction with mundane digital technologies to produce art that speaks to those familiar and mundane characteristics in new ways?”
Language is the naming of experience and, thereby, the possession of experience. Language makes possible a social statement of connection that can lead into social reality. For all these reasons, language is po- litical. Power belongs to the ones who have the power to determine the use, abuse, the rejection, definition/re-definition of the words—the messages—we must try and send to each other.