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PopMatters publishes an essay arguing that art brut, the outsider art tradition, offers a useful lens for understanding modern internet culture. The piece explores how untrained, raw creative expression online echoes the qualities long associated with outsider art, and what that parallel reveals about how people create and share today.
- 2Ninajirachi and the Sound of Internet Culture▼Music of the Message Boards: Ninajirachi and Internet Culture
Australian electronic producer Ninajirachi is the subject of a PopMatters feature exploring how online message boards and internet communities have shaped her music. The piece examines how web-native aesthetics, memes and forum culture feed into her production style, positioning her as part of a generation of artists whose sound and fanbase were formed online rather than through traditional music industry channels.
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A new essay on PopMatters explores what art brut, the outsider art tradition, can tell us about modern internet culture. It argues that the raw, unfiltered creativity of self-taught artists offers a useful lens for understanding how people make and share work online, outside institutional gatekeeping and mainstream artistic norms.