Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Marisa Olson is an artist, writer, curator and media theorist working across performance, video, installation, drawing, sound and internet art. Their practice examines the cultural history of technology, experiences of gender and disability, and the politics of participation within popular culture.
Olson helped establish the critical vocabulary of post-internet art by framing the term in 2006. “Post-internet” does not describe a world in which the internet has ended. It refers to art produced after online experience has become inseparable from everyday culture. The work may exist on a screen or in a gallery, but it remains shaped by searching, browsing, sharing and digital consumption.
Projects such as Marisa’s American Idol Audition Training Blog transform mass entertainment into performance, research and cultural critique. Elsewhere, Olson uses obsolete technologies and media fragments to examine visibility, participation and technological failure. This tag brings together articles and critical perspectives on Marisa Olson’s artistic, curatorial and theoretical practice.
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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