A multipolar Art World? with Joshua Citarella
“We seem to be at the end of globalization. With seismic political shifts, a certain era of contemporary art has also come to a close.”
– Joshua Citarella, A Multipolar Art World?
This week on the Artwrld podcast we’ll hear from artist and internet culture writer Joshua Citarella. Over the past decade, Citarella’s work has been deeply embedded in the study of online communities and radicalization; from his early explorations of Politigram & the Post-Left, done partly in collaboration with Rhizome, to his founding of art/editorial platform Do Not Research, to his ongoing YouTube series Doomscroll.
For this episode, Citarella will give a presentation on his recent text A Multipolar Art World?, in which he argues that the era of globalization underpinning contemporary art as we know it is ending, giving way to a location-specific, multipolar art world.
About Joshua Citarella
Joshua Citarella is a New York–based artist and writer on internet culture. He hosts Doomscroll, a podcast on online culture and 21st-century politics, and founded Do Not Research, a nonprofit arts organization. He has taught at RISD and the School of Visual Arts, and served as an advisor to Tufts and Carnegie Mellon. His work is held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum and the Hood Museum of Art, and his publications are in libraries including Yale, Harvard, MIT, and RISD.
About Rhizome
Rhizome champions internet art and culture through commissions, exhibition, and digital preservation, online at rhizome.org and in partnership with its longtime affiliate and host, the New Museum in New York City.
Founded in 1996 by artist Mark Tribe as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work on the web and now—more than twenty years later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with the internet.
About Artwrld
Artwrld is a social discovery app that makes the art world more welcoming, accessible and easier to explore. Now live in NYC and LA. More at: artwrld.com