網路到後網路──社會參與網路藝術的批判意識

Internet to Post-Internet: The Critical Awareness of Socially Engaged Internet Art

思考依賴數位生活情境中的個體，討論人與科技之間的交互關係與虛實切換，理解生活於網路集權與控制的監控資本主義時代，是身處於後網路時代裡的藝術家們，需要思考與關切的問題。以藝術創作進行網路文化的討論與批判，是一種重新建構、探求、參與、揭露與連結的思考過程。本研究將以「社會參與網路藝術」，梳理網路藝術到後網路藝術中的反思性批判，以三個主題「網路烏托邦的夢與真實」、「數位監控中的展演、隱私與偷窺」、「網路資本主義的操控與霸權」透過作品文本分析，討論網路藝術作品中的批判意識與社會參與網路藝術的實踐意義。

As artists who live in the post-Internet era, it is inevitable that we need to face the virtual and real culture created by technology. We have to show solicitude for the human being who relies on digital life, and consider the reflexive relationships between people and machine. We should be wary of and ascertain the ambiguous intersection of the real and virtual world when we switch between our real and virtual lives. We need to understand that we are already living in a centralized and controlled age of Surveillance Capitalism. Discussing and critiquing net culture in the manner of art practice is a thinking process of reconstruction, exploration, participation, exposure, and connection. The research analyzes the context of reflexivity criticism from the development of Internet Art to Post-Internet Art. Based on Socially Engaged Internet Art, this research performs textual analysis on three topics: “the dream and reality of cyber utopia,” “performance, privacy, and peeping in digital surveillance,” and “the supremacy and manipulation of cyber capitalism.” The article will acknowledge the critical consciousness and practical significance of socially engaged Internet art.