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Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and\ncritical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay,\nDavid Joselit describes how art and architecture are being\ntransformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of\ndigital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and\ndisseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of\ncultural exchange enabled by globalization, artists and architects\nare emphasizing networks as never before. Some of the most\ninteresting contemporary work in both fields is now based on\nvisualizing patterns of dissemination after objects and structures\nare produced, and after they enter into, and even establish,\ndiverse networks. Behaving like human search engines, artists and\narchitects sort, capture, and reformat existing content. Works of\nart crystallize out of populations of images, and buildings emerge\nout of the dynamics of the circulation patterns they will\nhouse.

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Examining the work of architectural firms such as OMA, Reiser +\nUmemoto, and Foreign Office, as well as the art of Matthew Barney,\nAi Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, and many others,_After Art_provides\na compelling and original theory of art and architecture in the age\nof global networks.

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