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Mendi + Keith Obadike's Black Net.Art Actions

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from the article on Rhizome about Black Net.Art Actions:

"Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Black Net.Art Actions is a suite of new media artworks produced in 2001-2003....The Black Net.Art Actions all take different forms, but share a conceptual interest in discourses of color and race, and the racialization of the internet–issues which were often glossed over in net art discourse. Taken as a whole, the actions can be understood as an attempt to reformulate net art with race as a central concern."

“WE DID NOT FEEL THAT THE NET WAS A COLORLESS SPACE, BUT RATHER, THAT WHITENESS WAS BEING SET UP AS THE DEFAULT.”
—MENDI OBADIKE

One of the works featured on the website called Keeping Up Appearances:

“I HAVE BOMBARDED THE VIEWER WITH DISAPPEARING HYPERTEXT AS A WAY TO WORK BACK INTO THE SMALLNESS I MIGHT MODEL IN MY DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.”

– MENDI OBADIKE


This is the full article on Rhizome (and see the other featured works):
https://anthology.rhizome.org/black-net-art-actions and the link to Mendi + Keith Obadike's website: http://www.blacknetart.com/

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