Choose Your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Feb 1-Aug 24, 2025

The exhibition 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. Read more…

Docu & Demo: Archiving Programmed Media Art

Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich, Feb 15-29, 2024

The show addresses the question of how programmed media art can and should be documented, recorded and discussed in the future. There are many different levels to consider. Social, aesthetic, reception-orientated and technical components all come into play. Read more …

NAD | Net Art Detector Tool v0.01

The NAD Tool is a browser0based application developed by Daniela Hönigsberg to support the investigation and analysis of web-based artistic pratices and to assist researchers, curators, and students in identifying webpages that diverge from conventional design practices. Read more …

Heat Map Web Crawler with Visual Site Mapping

The Heatmap Web Crawler with Visual Site Mapping tool is a desktop application that crawls websites and generates visual site maps with screenshots. This software tool is built with Electron, Express, and Mermaid.js. by Emma Dickson. Read more …

ROAMING.COM, 2025

What does the inner workings of a coded artwork look like? Often, descriptions of programmed artworks only begin to scratch the surface. Gaining insight into their tectonics and logic paves the way for acknowledging the choices, craft, and invention. Come on a journey with our Unity-based walk-through book! Read more…

Browser Art Browser, 2025

Our add-on to Jeffrey Shaw’s seminal Net.Art Navigator (1999) shows a timeline of 30 years of artistic web browser development. By shifting the monitor on the horizontal rack, visitors will get information about 200+ finds in our database. This interactive installation is featured as an entry piece of the exhibition Choose Your Filter! and embeds the exhibits in a much larger context of original thinking and experimental tinkering of how to go online. Read more …

Second Order Visitor’s Guide to London, 2023

This physical, built multi-modal stratigraphic object is supposed to map the multi-layered network of Heath Bunting’s net art work Visitor’s Guide to London (1995). The visitor to our analytical model can choose and combine different layers of information to find out about correlations or the lack thereof. Read more…

Inge Hinterwaldner and Daniela Hönigsberg (eds.): Choose Your Filter!, Hatje Cantz: Berlin, forthc.

This encompassing compendium features pioneering enterprises designed to advance the field of browser art. It also presents 200+ artistic browsers, browser extensions, or bookmarklets from the past 30 years. Thereby it discusses classics as well as completely forgotten work from all over the globe.

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Jiawen Yao: ROAMING.COM – A walk-through book for media art documentation, conference paper in: Media Art Histories and XXIV International Image Festival, Bogotà/Manizales 2.-9.5.2025, forthc.

Jiawen Yao, Daniela Hönigsberg, Mayte Gómez Molina, Yannick Westphal, Inge Hinterwaldner: ROAMING.COM printed. Paper-based ways of exploring a %WRONG Browser by JODI, in: Estelle Blaschke, Mario Schulze, and Sarine Waltenspül (eds.): Visual Science and Technology Studies: Perspectives. Mapping an Unsettled Field, Zurich: intercom: 2025, forthc.

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Yannick Westphal, Jiawen Yao, Mayte Gómez Molina: One study in three forms: advancing science communication in the humanities, in: The Project Repository Journal, vol. 23, April 2025, pp. 86-89. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner: Stretched between servers and services: Artistic and institutional strategies dealing with evolving internet infrastructures, in: Burcu Dogramaci and Ursula Ströbele (eds.): Infrastructures of Producing, Transporting and Logistics in Transnational Perspective, tba.

Inge Hinterwaldner: Dazwischengefunkt, tba., forthc.

Inge Hinterwaldner: Eselsohr trifft Wurmloch/Dog-ear meets worm hole, in: Ines Barner, Stephan Graf, Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner, Vera Wolff, and Monika Wulz (eds.): Über Bücher. 100 Texte für Michael Hagner, Göttingen: Wallstein 2025, pp. 294-298. PDF

Michael Rottmann: From ‚Re-source‘ to Pre-source. Computergraphics by Frieder Nake, the (Forgotten) Flow Chart and Some Thoughts on Digital Image and Programming, in: Andrés Burbano and Francesca Franco (eds.): Proceedings Conference MAH 2023 Venice: Re:Source, The 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities/Universitá Ca´ Foscari (IT), Venice 11/2024, pp. 277–282. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Mayte Gómez Molina: COSE on show! An exhibition as test ground for model building in interdisciplinary art history research, in: Jahrbuch der KIT-Fakultät für Architekur 2024: Promises, KIT-Fakultät für Architektur: Karlsruhe 2024, pp. 34-49. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner: Digging deep to meet artistic interventions hidden in the digital fabric, in: The Project Repository Journal, vol. 15, October 2022, pp. 100-104. PDF

Daniela Hönigsberg and Inge Hinterwaldner (eds.): Browser Talk. An Oral History of Artistic Browsers (with editorial work by Barbara Filser, Paula Muhr, and Petra Kaiser), forthc.

Conducting interviews with artists and programmers for our research was so enriching that we decided we would not want to keep it to ourselves. This edited volume features ten conversations with 16 practitioners closely encircling the many facets of their artistic browsers.

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Konstantin Mitrokhov (eds.): Navigation, issue series “Begriffe des digitalen Bildes”, LMU Munich: Munich 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.93518

It is an experimental multi-authored book. Ten scholars from different backgrounds were assigned one and the same specific task: Elaborate the best practice for documenting the artistic browser .co.kr by JODI. It was a blind parallel task and resulted in an astounding variety of best solutions.

Inge Hinterwaldner, Barbara Filser, Daniela Hönigsberg, Konstantin Mitrokhov, Martina Richter: Massive Parallel Documenting – special issue on Navigation, in: Jahrbuch der KIT-Fakultät für Architektur 2022: BestandTeile, KIT-Fakultät für Architektur: Karlsruhe 2022, pp. 306-309. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Konstantin Mitrokhov, Martina Richter: Negotiating the way to the internet. On the impact of software design on browsing experience and user interaction, in: Visual Culture Studies, vol. 1, no. 3-4: Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Media (ed. Sean Cubitt and Valentino Catricalà), 2022, pp. 175-210. Abstract PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Konstantin Mitrokhov, Martina Richter: Browser Art. Navigating with Style – Interviews, in: Jahrbuch der KIT-Fakultät für Architektur 2021: Salutogenese, KIT-Fakultät für Architektur: Karlsruhe 2021, pp. 304-305. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner and Daniela Hönigsberg: Browser Art. Navigating with Style, in: Hubertus Kohle and Hubert Locher (eds.): The Digital Image: A Transdisciplinary Research Cluster, DAHJ Editions, vol. 1, Munich: Graphentis Verlag 2021, pp. 38-55. PDF

Inge Hinterwaldner: When windows attack … doors won’t help. Zur Hinterfragung von Bildlichkeit und Interaktivität in der Netzkunst/When Windows Attack … Doors Won’t Help: A Critical Analysis of the Imagery and Interactivity in Net Art, in: Birgit Mersmann and Martin Schulz (eds.): Kulturen des Bildes/Cultures of the Image, Munich: Fink 2006, pp. 355-374. PDF