Subconsciously, we are structured by the repertoire of codes and grammar of meaning proliferated across our hyper-accelerated, digitally mediated landscape. This expansive, hybrid set of web-based, net art, WiFi installations, networked art, post-internet videos, photographs, paintings, gifs, objects, graphics and moving images overlap in content, concept and disciplines, premised on an ideological contradiction wherein the simulacrum reveals the absence of truth it purportedly hides. As the medium has swallowed the message by multiplying it in all directions, the poverty of experience at the hands of such a society calls into question the politics of memory and our subjugation to technological determinism. The postmodern break and proliferation of signs, spectacles and simulacra that permeates this multidisciplinary field erases formerly autonomous spheres posited by classical social theory, in favor of an implosive theory that mixes philosophy and social diagnosis. Through recontextualizing web art, the chronicling of contemporary material culture unveiled within such works dissects binary structures, compressing past and present into an illusion of penetrable and impenetrable space whereby imagery adapts new meaning.
