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artport is the Whitney Museum of American Art’s portal to internet art and its online gallery space for commissions of net art. Originally launched in 2001, artport provides access to original works commissioned specifically for the site by the Whitney. The artport website features three commissioning categories: the Gate Pages (2001–2006); the main Commissions (2001–present); and the Sunrise/Sunset series (2009–2024) and its successor, On the Hour (2024–present). Since its inception, artport has presented a snapshot of the varied practices artists use to engage with an ever-evolving online environment.


Commissions

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Since 2001, the Whitney Museum of American Art has commissioned original works of web-based art for artport.

  • Screenshot of a constellation of words on a purple and black background, with ancestral intelligence at the center.

    Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game!

    2026

  • 3D rendered green underwater scene with floating blue orb and various sea plants and rock formations.

    Leo Castañeda: Camoflux Recall Grotto

    2026

  • Digital artwork featuring a swirling, glass-like structure that resembles a DNA double helix and flowing water, set against a deep blue and violet nebula, with floating particles and snippets of computer code drifting by.

    Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean

    2026


On the Hour

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On the Hour is a series of internet art projects that mark every full hour around the clock, unfolding over a time frame of thirty seconds.

  • An animated pink multi-tentacled red dragon with bulging eyes and stitched speech bubbles shouting doglike sounds, layered over the Whitney website in the background in yellow.

    Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2

    Oct 29, 2025–

  • Screenshot of text over the top of whitney.org saying "Pilates at 7:00, went home, changed, quick breakfast, and then I walked into work" in bold pink, with TikTok comments spread around and behind.

    Maya Man: A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

    Oct 29, 2024–Oct 28, 2025

  • A grid of mostly black and white images on top of what appears to be the whitney.org homepage. A large blue circle is spread across the grid, with little people walking through various rooms and spaces. A red sun rises in the top left over a cyan sky.

    Peter Burr: Sunshine Monument

    Sept 20–Oct 28, 2024


Sunrise/Sunset

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Sunrise/Sunset was a series of internet art projects that marked sunset and sunrise in New York City every day from 2009 to 2024.

  • A grid of mostly black and white images on top of what appears to be the whitney.org homepage. A large blue circle is spread across the grid, with little people walking through various rooms and spaces. A red sun rises in the top left over a cyan sky.

    Peter Burr: Sunshine Monument

    July 25, 2023–Sept 19, 2024

  • Two hands dig through dirt and moss with the bright glow of a screen filled with color poking through.

    Rick Silva: Liquid Crystal

    Apr 11–July 24, 2023

  • Screenshot of webpage with a diptych image on the left, with trees on one side and blue and purple mirrored shapes on the other, and a poem on the right. The image and the poem are contained within a black shape, with a maroon background behind.

    Amelia Winger-Bearskin: SKY/WORLD DEATH/WORLD

    Dec 15, 2022–Apr 10, 2023


Gate Pages

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Every month from March 2001 to February 2006, the Whitney invited an artist or collective to present their work in the form of a “Gate Page” on artport. Each page was meant to function as a portal to the artist’s own sites and projects.

  • Image of Shakespeare's Globe, over a tan background, with large text beneath that says Bstat zero.

    Myron Turner: Bstat Zero

    February 2006

  • Photoshopped album cover of two people holding dogs. The person on the left has a black and white image of Abe Lincoln with a mohawk for a head, and the person on the left appears to be the face of the artist. Text above says Abe & Mo Sing the Blogs.

    Abe Linkoln + Marisa Olson: ABE & MO “SING THE BLOGS”

    January 2006

  • Screenshot from the online virtual environment Second Life. There are two figures, the one in the foreground is holding up a document that says FLACK ATTACK.

    Simon Goldin + Jakob Senneby: Flack Attack

    December 2005

  • Screenshot of a chart that is nearly all black, with columns containing horizontal lines of different brightness.

    George Legrady: Making Visible the Invisible

    November 2005/2026

  • Screenshot of webpage on a mustard yellow background of 6 square thumbnails of various patterned line drawings.

    John F. Simon Jr.: A Look Inside “Mobility Agents” Code Improvisations: Hatch Tool

    October 2005

  • Four squares in a row with thumbnails of projects. Each square is made up of lines, charts, and map graphics.

    Benjamin Fry: computational information design | sketches

    September 2005


Lines of green text on a black background, with larger red text in the middle that says WHEN WE GIVE OUR SELFS WE GAIN EACH OTHER.

From the Collection
Douglas Davis: The World's First Collaborative Sentence, 1994

The World's First Collaborative Sentence, created by Douglas Davis for a survey exhibition of his work in 1994 and donated to the Whitney in 1995, is a “classic” of internet art. Allowing users to contribute to a never-ending sentence, it anticipated today's blog environments and ongoing posts. 

In early 2012 the Whitney Museum undertook a preservation effort, making the Sentence functional for the first time since 2005.

Learn more about the Sentence


View the original artport websites

Explore an archive of new media exhibitions and artists’ projects on the original artport website, launched in 2001, or the expanded second version, launched in 2002.

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  • Dense collage of many small images and thumbnails arranged in a dark grid.

    Exhibition

    artport: A History of Internet Art

    Opens Nov 21

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