{"id":79687,"date":"2026-03-10T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=79687"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:05:49","slug":"random-access-memory-internet-art-opening-at-sbma-march-15-explores-how-artists-engage-with-the-internet-as-a-tool-archive-and-cultural-touchstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=79687","title":{"rendered":"RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY: INTERNET ART \u2013 OPENING AT SBMA MARCH 15 \u2013 EXPLORES HOW ARTISTS ENGAGE WITH THE INTERNET AS A TOOL, ARCHIVE, AND CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SANTA BARBARA, Calif.<\/strong> \u2013 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is pleased to present\u00a0<i>RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY: Internet Art<\/i>\u00a0(March 15\u2013September 27, 2026), an exhibition that brings together digital projects by three multimedia artists:\u00a0<b>Zhanyi Chen<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Claire Hentschker<\/b>, and\u00a0<b>Andrew Norman Wilson<\/b>. This is the first exhibition at SBMA solely dedicated to the Internet as both a source and a subject.<\/p>\n<table role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div>The Internet is the ubiquitous medium of 21st-century life and our primary mode of connection, entertainment, and research. Despite its familiarity, the Internet continuously resists predictability.\u00a0<i>RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY<\/i>\u00a0frames the web as a living memory system\u2014ever-changing, contradictory, and subject to distortion\u2014where personal histories blur into collective narratives.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div>From early \u201cnet.art\u201d HTML experiments to digital content shaped by today&#8217;s algorithm-driven platforms, artists have embraced both the possibilities and constraints of the web as creative tools. In\u00a0<i>RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY<\/i>, the Internet is actively and critically examined as opposed to treated as a neutral backdrop. All three projects are crafted from highly specific and traceable online sources; the results are curious and unexpectedly poetic.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013 The Santa&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79688,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687\/revisions\/79688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}