Ep. 44: Net Art w/ Kevin Heckart
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Kevin Heckart is a Kansas City based artist who created the artwork behind seapunk’s original aesthetic. This special episode coincides with both the one year anniversary of Silent Generation and the relaunch of the seapunk clothing line Mainframe, which features many of Heckart’s designs. The first half of episode is an interview with Heckart that serves as a spiritual threequel to Silent Generation’s prior two seapunk episodes while the later half is a broader conversation about net art and net artists such as Brad Troemel, Hito Steyerl, Laturbo Avendon, and Lorna Mills. Amongst other things they discuss how Heckart has gone viral on Tiktok for hacking animatronic fish and furby toys, how Nathan and Brad Troemel did the same undergrad program, how Hito Steyerl incorporated real life biographies into Factory of the Sun, and how Skibbidy Toilet shows how thoroughly post-internet aesthetics have permeated popular culture.
Links:
Mainframe’s Instagram
Kevin Heckart’s Instagram
Kevin Heckart’s Tiktok
I hacked a singing fish. - Kevin Heckart
“and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self” meme
HIS BRAIN? NO. HIS HEART Brad Troemel meme
The Post-internet Culture Report by Brad Troemel
Untitled, 2016 by Laura Owens
Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power by Lucy R. Lippard
Color(ed) Theory Series by Amanda Williams
Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War by Olia Lialina
Madison Beer #NoFilter by Dis Magazine
I was Raised on the Internet exhibition at the MCA
Transdimensional Serpent by Jon Rafman
The Jogging Tumblr blog
Army of Ants by Brad Troemel
Giant Arthropods Eating Doritos early meme
Liquidity Inc. by Hito Steyerl screenshot
Factory of the Sun by Hito Steyerl
takeSomeCrime Youtube channel
In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl
In Defense of the Poor Image-esque Instagram post
GIFS by Lorna Mills
Repetition Mindset: Artists as Snowflakes by Brad Troemel
Artwork:
Provided by Kevin Heckart
Recorded on 10/16/2024
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