{"id":"printing-out-the-internet","name":"Printing Out the Internet","summary":"Printing Out the Internet was a 2013 conceptual art project by poet Kenneth Goldsmith asking anyone with a printer to mail pages from the web to a Mexico City gallery as a memorial for Aaron Swartz. The wildly literal premise pulled in over 10 tons of mail from more than 20,000 contributors and became a viral running joke once bloggers started calculating the paper stack in miles.","tags":["printing out the internet","kenneth goldsmith","aaron swartz memorial","LABOR gallery","conceptual art","uncreative writing","print the internet"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":7,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-kenneth-goldsmith-installation-portrait.webp","caption":"Artist Kenneth Goldsmith poses in the middle of his Printing Out the Internet installation, a crowdsourced project displaying reams of printed web pages.","width":500,"height":750,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-printed-meme-pages-closeup.webp","caption":"Printed sheets from the exhibit reveal internet memes and image macros submitted by contributors around the world.","width":680,"height":453,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-goldsmith-portrait-at-exhibit.webp","caption":"A promotional portrait of Goldsmith at the Printing Out the Internet installation.","width":500,"height":750,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-please-dont-print-petition-printout.webp","caption":"A printout of Justin Swanhart's Change.org counter-petition, 'Please don't print the internet,' opposing the exhibition on environmental grounds.","width":680,"height":465,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-change-org-petition-screenshot.webp","caption":"The Change.org petition 'Please don't print the internet' argued that reducing paper use is more important than post-usage recycling.","width":595,"height":524,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-leicester-paper-page-one.webp","caption":"A 2015 University of Leicester paper calculating the paper cost of literally printing the internet inspired by Goldsmith's project.","width":680,"height":962,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/printing-out-the-internet-leicester-paper-page-two.webp","caption":"The paper concludes that printing the entire non-explicit internet would require just 0.002% of the Amazon rainforest.","width":680,"height":962,"nsfw":true}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/printing-out-the-internet/history.md","related":["attack-on-titan-memes","30-day-challenges","15-minutes-late-with-starbucks","5ever","girls-that-look-like-skrillex","how-to-make-a-cute-dress-out-of-shorts","the-scream","wanderer-above-the-sea-of-fog","banksy","meme-paintings","artnome","skeenee"],"popularityRank":3070,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}