![]() ![]() They spread through and beyond networks, they contract and expand, they stall and stumble, they vie, they vile, they wow and woo. They materialize as junkspace, military invasion, and botched plastic surgery. They invade cities, transforming spaces into sites, and reality into realty. Images become unplugged and unhinged and start crowding off-screen space. They incarnate as riots or products, as lens flares, high-rises, or pixelated tanks. 7 They surpass the boundaries of data channels and manifest materially. Screens were now ubiquitous, not to speak of images themselves, which could be copied and dispersed at the flick of a finger.ĭata, sounds, and images are now routinely transitioning beyond screens into a different state of matter. 6 Suddenly, the points of transfer multiplied. This development accelerated when web infrastructure started supplementing TV networks as circuits for image circulation. Here scientist Christoph Sensen is pictured looking at his creation. 5ĬAVEman is a 3-D virtual patient projected onto a holodeck which allows doctors to visualize and diagnose ailments in high-definition. Around 1989, television images started walking through screens, right into reality. They acquired an uncanny ability to proliferate, transform, and activate. They are rather nodes of energy and matter that migrate across different supports, 4 shaping and affecting people, landscapes, politics, and social systems. 3 Since then it has become clear that images are not objective or subjective renditions of a preexisting condition, or merely treacherous appearances. 2 Broadcasts from occupied TV studios became active catalysts of events-not records or documents. Remember the Romanian uprising in 1989, when protesters invaded TV studios to make history? At that moment, images changed their function. And yet, it is expanding in another direction. Even nowadays when networks seem to multiply exponentially, many people have no access to the internet or don’t use it at all. This implies a spatial dimension, but not as one might think. It seems overwhelming, bedazzling and without immediate alternative. Never before have more people been dependent on, embedded into, surveilled by, and exploited by the web. It has not only sparked but fully captured the imagination, attention and productivity of more people than at any other point before. ![]() The question is very literally whether it is dead, how it died and whether anyone killed it.īut how could anyone think it could be over? The internet is now more potent than ever. It asks what happened to the internet after it stopped being a possibility. It does not suggest that the internet is dysfunctional, useless or out of fashion. Is the internet dead? 1 This is not a metaphorical question. ![]()
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