Internet artists finally real-world exhibiting is always so literal. AIDS 3-D’s actualization of a gif in sculpture sans lossy nostalgia. or Arcangel’s ability to make the literalness ham-fisted fun. Here a David Robbins Concrete Comedy but rather more making-fun-of than funny. Remains of Birthday balloons for Bruce Nauman hallway. Yuk, Yuk. A teenage bedroom-cum-office of all the internets embarrassments. Yuk, Yuk. The non-vocals of pop-segue literalized: Na,na,na ×12. Yuk, Yuk. Pointing out the foibles of the never-meant-to-be-taken-seriously-anyway has never been a winning game. The naive vernacular of digital natives is what endears us to the internet, no one is asking to “foist an infantilizing rationality on all ‘Internet art.’” Its remaining irrational that's hardest. A requiem for remembering when this used to be fun.
