Defining net-art is much harder today than it was in its infancy in the ’90s, says the Whitney’s Christiane Paul. “We are looking at something that is becoming more hybrid. Pieces often have different manifestations: an application, a net-based piece, an installation.”

For James Bridle, the Predator drone epitomizes how we live in a networked age: “Sight at a distance, action at a distance, and it’s invisible.” He dubbed his inquiries on how we understand technology the “New Aesthetic,” sparking something of a movement along the way.

As we know from our Gallery 9 collection, conserving net-art can be tricky. It’s an issue museums like the Whitney face in considering how to present works like Douglas Davis’ 1995 piece The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, made with now-obsolete technology.

For artists working in the digital realm, s[edition] “could be a major game-changer—if it ends up being profitable.” Part eBay, part Apple app store, the curated site connects buyers with artists from Jenny Holzer to Ryoji Ikeda.

Blurred paintings on the Google Art Project—distorted to obscure copyrighted works—are the subject of Phil Johnson’s new series. He takes screengrabs of the Rothko-esque images to be reproduced at China’s Dafen Oil Painting Village and then exhibited.

Instead of overcoming the spectacle Debord wrote of, the Internet makes it “microscopic and distribute[s] it,” says McKenzie Wark on The Spectacle of Disintegration. “We have micro-spectacular relations rather than one big macro one.”

On Chicago’s 3D Printer Experience: Given the profit potential of 3D printing, “it may come as a surprise that the Midwest’s first public foray into the technology is based on promoting public access to, rather than privatizing, this revolutionizing technology.”

For its 2013–14 grant cycle, Rhizome has a new category: Tumblr-based art. Three grants of $1,000 to $5,000 will go to “projects from emerging artists engaged with Tumblr.” Jury members include Laurie Anderson and Massimiliano Gioni, among others.

The Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset project switched to a new work by net-art pioneers JODI on March 5. For 30 seconds twice daily, goodmorning goodnight scrapes text from Livedash and imagery from Panoramio for a real-time exploration of Manhattan’s light cycles.