# Post-Internet Art (ポスト・インターネット・アート)

> Post-Internet art treats the internet as an ordinary condition of life and production, turning the circulation between online images, objects, exhibitions and documentation into the work.

- IndexStyle No.564 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/post-internet-art
- Kind: Aesthetic · Family: Digital Culture · Era: 2000s–
- Mood: Rebellion, Technique, Futurity
- What this family collects: Visual lineages formed after networks and machine vision became everyday conditions, moving between screens, objects, exhibitions, surveillance and past visions of the future.

## Defining characteristics

- Network images converted into prints or objects
- Screenshots, product images and 3D renders mixed
- Installation views returning to social feeds
- High-resolution and compressed imagery on the same surface

## Best used for

- Treating social, commerce, 3D and galleries as one circulation system
- Tracing digital images into objects and back online

## Composition recipe

- Typography & lettering: Let interface text, product names, filenames and gallery labels coexist as distinct registers.
- Layout & structure: Place browser images, objects and documentation together without declaring one the original.
- Material & texture: Keep the traces of conversion between screenshot, compression, print, 3D output and commodity.

## Colour

Read off the reference works below, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.

- Ground: #F7F7F7
- The colour it is remembered by: #7A5CFF
- Text and outlines: #202020

## What to avoid

A collage of found web images alone does not address the circulation, reproduction and exhibition that define the tendency.

## Application checklist

Work through this before calling a piece an application of this style.

- [ ] Visible in the piece: Network images converted into prints or objects
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Screenshots, product images and 3D renders mixed
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Installation views returning to social feeds
- [ ] Visible in the piece: High-resolution and compressed imagery on the same surface
- [ ] The layout follows: Place browser images, objects and documentation together without declaring one the original.
- [ ] The lettering follows: Let interface text, product names, filenames and gallery labels coexist as distinct registers.
- [ ] The material and surface follow: Keep the traces of conversion between screenshot, compression, print, 3D output and commodity.
- [ ] The colour relation holds: #F7F7F7 as ground, #7A5CFF carrying the style, #202020 for text and outlines
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Net.art (ネット・アート)** — Treats the browser, the link, the transmission error and the network itself as both the material and the site of the work. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/net-art
- **Superflat (スーパーフラット)** — Juxtaposes anime, manga, advertising and traditional painting on one flat plane, questioning the border of high art and consumer culture. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/superflat

## Compose it with something else

The dictionary can put this entry in a structural role and another in an accent role, and report where the two fight: https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=post-internet-art+net-art

## Further study

- Marisa Olson
- Online circulation and physical exhibition
- Image dispersion

## Reference works

- UCCA — Art Post-Internet — https://artsandculture.google.com/story/art-post-internet-ullens-center-for-contemporary-art/MgUxxWs5PRkA8A?hl=en

## Source of record

- UCCA — Art Post-Internet — https://artsandculture.google.com/story/art-post-internet-ullens-center-for-contemporary-art/MgUxxWs5PRkA8A?hl=en

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/post-internet-art
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/post-internet-art/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compare_styles, compose_styles, find_related_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)