Monograph of one of the first female digital and internet artists in the Netherlands! Det Digit (1935-2024) combined technology and art to explore themes of chaos, structure, nature and technology and artificial intelligence. Looking through Det Digit’s eyes we realize that the wonder and excitement of the early internet are still relevant today in our dealings with digital media, and the struggle for open technology. Her work includes interactions with global Internet pioneers and scientists, leading to innovative digital and spatial creations, such as one of the Netherlands’ first artists-Bulletin Board Systems (1992) and the digital book The Harvestmen Utopia (2022).

“It became a long-running internet performance in which the lines between fact and fiction, virtual and physical were blurred. In doing so, Det Digit was ahead of her time. […]  Her curiosity knows no bounds. Det Digit shows similarities with the characteristics of the technological infrastructure that is the catalyst of her work: the rhizomatic and connecting communication and information network called the internet. Det Digit works not with, but as the internet.”  (Sanneke Huisman – art historian and curator)

“I am delighted that Det’s work is now also appearing in book form, an associative and visual overview that you can wander through just as you did in her first BBS, giving Det recognition as one of the first internet artists who helped mine cyberspace and gave it conceptual direction.“ (Marleen Stikker – director/founder De Waag in Amsterdam and founder De Digitale Stad)

Paperback 230 x 320 mm, published in 2024, 128 pages, full colour images.
Language: full bilingual, English and Dutch.
Book Design by Monica Schokkenbroek.