What is VVORK?

vvork is a 3d game concept based on an alternate mid century reality of the early computer age. The world is based on fictional real technology and is set in the late 1950’s or early 1970’s with some 80’s tech thrown in for good measure. Stop back and check on the progress and see what I am vvorking on.

What happened to the VVORK site?

VVORK isn’t “merely” an online publication; it’s impure, nonspecific, incorrect net art at its best. When VVORK announced, in late 2012, that they were shutting down, Rhizome’s then-conservator Ben Fino-Radin scraped the site in a state of semi-panic via a wonky wifi connection in his hotel room (or so I seem to recall).

Is art happening on VVORK?

Rather than thinking of the internet as primary context where “art can happen,” Cramer is saying, VVORK offers “merely” representations of artwork that are subordinate to the gallery experience. But over six years of looking at VVORK, it often felt very clear that art was happening there.

What are some of the criticisms of VVORK?

VVORK depicted artistic production as a networked, collaborative process subject to certain patterns, and it saw potential in iteration. Another criticism that was raised of VVORK is also quite interesting to reconsider. In the introduction to Josephine Bosma’s essential net art book Netitudes, Florian Cramer wrote that:

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