Eva & Franco MattesIT/US
Eva & Franco Mattes (b. 1976) are an Italian-American conceptual artist duo whose pioneering practice has helped define the development of net art, post-Internet art, and digital conceptualism over the past three decades. Since the mid-1990s they have blurred the boundaries between reality and fiction — appropriating websites, staging media hoaxes, releasing a computer virus as an artistic intervention at the Venice Biennale, and publicly exposing the entire contents of their computer in Life Sharing.
Their work interrogates authenticity, surveillance, authorship, and the cultural impact of networked technologies, and has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Venice Biennale.
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Re: Re: Re: Net Art2025
Re: Re: Re: Net Art revisits the internet of the 1990s — raw, glitchy Net Art websites — and reinterprets them through artificial intelligence. The work retraces early online experiments in copying, remixing, and hacking through archives, oral histories, and old articles, feeding them back into AI. Connoisseurs will recognize elements of works by Antiorp, Kevin Bewersdorf, Cory Arcangel, Petra Cortright, Vuk Cosic, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Olia Lialina, Mark Napier, Rafael Rozendaal, and Alexei Shulgin, among others.
The project confronts two kinds of appropriation: the informal, almost innocent copying of the early web, and the industrial-scale extraction of contemporary AI. What began as a chaotic open playground now circulates as ghosts inside machine learning models on massive corporate infrastructure. The result is a loop, a remix of a remix of a dataset — familiar and counterfeit at once. The early web is already a ruin; AI does not remember, it predicts.
