The exhibition Choose your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web offers fresh insights into 30 years of the development of alternative browsers. It presents a wide variety of artistic takes on what cyberspace is and what users can do with it.
The exhibition demonstrates that the Internet can actually have many different faces, depending on concept, task, technical sophistication, and aesthetic choice. But whichever browser we choose, it brings with it a raft of conceptual filters that determine what we see, how we see it, and above all what we don’t see.
Choose Your Filter! is part of a long history of presenting and collecting Internet art at the ZKM, which started with net_condition in 1999, the world’s first exhibition dedicated entirely to net art. Numerous historical works have been painstakingly restored for this exhibition by the participating artists and the ZKM team, allowing them to be seen again for the first time in many years. The exhibition is based on two research projects on Internet art and artistic browser applications conducted at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is accompanied by scholarly publications.
Further information: https://zkm.de/en/2025/02/choose-your-filter