ENTER NASTY.NET

John Michael Boling

• Born in 1983
• Co-founder of Nasty nets and Are.na - a platform for creative research
• Long-standing contributor to Rhizome
• Originally posted his things on his art site: www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com (dead link)
• Began designing graphics at a young age
• Was around art a lot thanks to his father and grandfather Met
• Worked with Marisa Olson through del.icio.us and Nasty Nets
• There is an interview of John Michael explaining why Nasty Nets ended here.
• He specifically says it became "unfun" through an online war that spawned in the comment thread on a blog. The founders realized that it was no longer an art collective so they ended it, lasting from 2006-2012
• Read more about the artists and their work here

Marisa Olson

• One co-founder of Nasty Nets
• Born in Germany
• Writer, artist, media theorist
• Work with new media, performance, painting, installation
• Her work has been presented by presented by the Whitney Museum, New Museum, Venice Biennale, Fotomuseum Winterthur, C/O Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art-Athens, Tate Modern + Liverpool, and many more
• Read more about the artists and their work Here
• See her website here

Joel Holmberg

• One co-founder of Nasty Nets
• Artist - mostly concentrated around painting
• He believes you can represent the Internet, something you cannot physically see, by painting it
• Below are pictures of his paintings of the Internet
• Read more about the artists and their work here
• Click here to see more

Gutherie Lonergan

• Co-founder of Nasty Nets
• Engineer of Nasty Nets
• Born in 1984 in LA
• Artist and programmer
• Graduated in 2006 from Univeristy of California at Berkley
• Works on the Web, searching the Internet for materials and images to appropriate
• His approach to his work was that there was so much out in the world already it was pointless for him to make something completely from scratch
• Visit his website here
• Read more about the artists and their work here