From the browser to the gallery: Petra Cortright's 'post-internet' art
The artist is exhibiting gifs of wiggling strippers found online – and people are collecting her work. So what happens when the technology becomes obsoloete?Strippers are raining from the rafters at Depart Foundation on Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip. It’s not an adolescent fantasy; instead, it’s post-internet artist Petra Cortright’s Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola, a series of massive screens seemingly infected with VirtuaGirl, a seedy computer programme that sends a cadre of strippers dancing a
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