Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Seth Price (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is an American artist and writer based in New York. He works across sculpture, painting, photography, video, sound, publishing and digital media. His practice examines how images and objects gain meaning through circulation, copying and technological change. Rather than treating distribution as a final step, Price makes it part of the artwork itself.
Dispersion, first published in 2002, explored how art might operate through networks, reproductions and formats available to mass culture. His ongoing video Redistribution repeatedly edits and reframes his own work, talks and public image. Price often recycles commercial images, internet material and earlier projects in altered forms. Vacuum-formed plastics, garments and digital printing connect physical objects with unstable flows of data.
This archive gathers articles, exhibitions and critical views on Price’s work, from Dispersion to Redistribution and Folklore U.S. His art explores authorship, cultural memory, anonymity and the pressure technology places on the self. He avoids a fixed visual style because recognisable style can itself become a marketable product. Every copy changes context, while every new medium brings its own forms of loss and control. Price asks whether art can circulate widely without surrendering its complexity to the systems that distribute it.
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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