Cyberspace opens up to everyone
With the publication of the first website in 1991 and the development of the WorldWideWeb browser by Tim Berners-Lee, the Internet became widely accessible. The development of the multimedia browser Mosaic in 1993 accelerated its use and led to the mass distribution of the Internet in European households from 1998. Web browsers developed into the main portals of the Internet.
From 1994 onwards, artists enriched the web with creative browser projects that offered alternative uses such as visual storytelling, music composition or viewing web structures. However, this diversity diminished with the dominance of market-dominating browsers such as Chrome and Safari, while closed social media platforms increasingly replaced the open web.
The "Choose Your Filter!" exhibition draws attention to this lost diversity and shows how differently the internet can be experienced depending on the browser. It is based on research projects and aims to create a living memory for artistic browser experiments.
