Artie Vierkant (born 1986 in Brainerd, Minnesota) is an American artist and writer based in Brooklyn. His practice moves between digital files, sculpture, photography, online circulation and critical writing. He became influential through his 2010 essay The Image Object Post-Internet. The text examined how networked culture changes our relation to images, objects, authorship and ownership.
Vierkant’s Image Objects begin as digital compositions before becoming sculptural prints on rigid surfaces. He later alters photographs of their exhibition and circulates those images online. The documentation therefore creates another version of the artwork rather than recording a fixed original. Neither the physical object nor its digital image holds final authority. His Exploits series extends this inquiry into copyright, contracts and intellectual property.
This archive gathers articles, exhibitions and critical views on Vierkant’s work and writing. His practice challenges the belief that exhibition photography offers neutral evidence of an artwork. Every file can change, circulate and generate new contexts beyond the artist’s direct control. Vierkant explores what happens when copies become as important as originals and attention becomes a form of currency. His work asks who controls an image when production, display and distribution merge into the same continuous process.
Immersion and interaction: the 1990s helped define digital art as an experiential space. Post-Internet Art: When the Internet Stopped Being Somewhere Else Post-Internet Art sounds like a historical contradiction because we are clearly
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