Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Orit Gat on 2006 and the Rise of YouTube
Orit Gat considers YouTube and how 2006 marked the peak, decline, and end of a certain kind of digital optimism.
Orit Gat is an art critic living in London and New York. Her writing about the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture has appeared in a variety of magazines, including frieze, ArtReview, art-agenda, the Times Literary Supplement, The World Policy Journal, and The White Review, where she is a contributing editor. She is a winner of the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the IAAC Award (in 2017 and 2018). She's currently working on her first book, a nonfiction essay looking at football as a prism through which to explore questions about immigration, nationalism, race, gender, money, and love.
Orit Gat considers YouTube and how 2006 marked the peak, decline, and end of a certain kind of digital optimism.