Analysis Of Visual Subcultural Phenomena In Post-Internet Art

With the development of science and technology,the era of Post-Internet has come.After completing the exploration and experimentation of the boundaries of internet media throughout the Internet Age,artists have turned to use artistic creation to respond to this era of internet-flooding,which is no longer novel,and Post-Internet art gradually entered the public eye.Just as the network environment in the Post-Internet Age began to be tribalized,tribalized subcultural art communities are beginning to appear on the Internet.The activities of subculture have changed from the off-line to the on-line,endowed with the characteristics of the post-Internet era,and due to the rapid increase of shared information in the Internet Age,subcultures have gradually lost their vitality and creativity in this era of information explosion,that includes the subcultural art of "Weirdcore".As an Internet subcultural art in the Post-Internet Age,“Weirdcore " is inspired by Dataism on the basis of the concept of Dada movement,the visual basis of Surrealism,and the group basis of youth subculture,activateing viewers ’subconscious through images.At the same time,most of the audiences of“Weirdcore" are the youth of Generation Z,making this art a typical cultural product of the Post-Internet Age,which has the visual and emotional characteristics experienced by this generation at a certain age.The influence of "Weirdcore" is currently growing rapidly in western online communities,but related discussion in China is still relatively low.At present,the art of "Weirdcore" is often applied in independent game art,or in independent artworks,but there are still relatively few excellent works."Weirdcore" is a spontaneous art coming from online communities,and its subcultural nature only establishes its ephemeral characteristics and advantages: this community that opposes mainstream aesthetics is a haven for confused youth,until commercial organizations discover its commercial potential.How to better understand the concept of subcultural art as“Weirdcore" in the post-Internet Age and to summarize and use its unique artistic rhetoric means to create more diversified creations has become the main purpose of this paper.In the second chapter,this article summarizes the concept and development of Post-Internet art and subculture through literature research and speculative methods,and discusses the Internet subculture and its development status generated by the mutual influence between the two;In the third chapter,an in-depth study is conducted on the "Weirdcore",which is one of the typical Internet subcultural arts,to explore its cause,historical origin and current development;and in the fifth chapter,with the summarized aesthetic essence of "Weirdcore" art,a personal film project named“The Pit" has been conducted,verifying and experiencing the summed up empirical methods to get a more complete conclusions of the study,and the prospect of future related research and practice.It is hoped that this paper can provide new directions and methods for the study of Internet subculture,and provide fresh inspiration and new perspectives for the field of contemporary art,and can also cause discussions of the the post-Internet Age’s influences on the youth through the aesthetic phenomenon of “Weirdcore”.