New Net Art Manifesto
The New Net Art Manifesto is a programmatic text written by Charlotte Fang for the Remilia Corporation between 2021 and 2022. First drafted in March 2021 and circulated internally among the Remilia collective by March throughout that year, it was publicly released on Twitter in March 2022 and republished on Mirror in April 2022. The manifesto outlines the core principles of the New Net Art movement, including post-authorship, posting as art, abundance mentality, the whitepill, and network spirituality.
The manifesto has been described as the foundational text of Remilia’s artistic program. It served both as theoretical framework for Remilia’s projects and as a symbolic act inaugurating a break from millennial Post-Internet Art.
History
Composition (2021)
Charlotte Fang began developing the manifesto in early 2021, shortly after organizing the Remilia collective. Notes from January–March 2021 sketched out a framework for what Fang called a “new wave of net art,” distinguishing it from the post-internet generation of artists that had dominated institutional discourse in the 2010s. By March 2021, a completed version was circulated privately among Remilia members as an orientation text.
The internal draft articulated themes of pseudonymity, collective authorship, and memetic circulation. It reflected Fang’s conclusion, drawn from controversies such as the LD50 gallery backlash of 2017, that institutional infrastructures were inhospitable to internet-native artistic practice.
Public Release (2022)
The manifesto was first published publicly on Twitter in March 2022, coinciding with the mint-out of Milady Maker. A revised version was then posted to Mirror on April 20, 2022 under the title “What Remilia Believes In: A New Net Art Manifesto.” The timing aligned with Remilia’s campaign to frame Milady as both NFT project and cultural movement.
Circulation
Following publication, the manifesto spread widely across NFT and crypto-art communities. Its vocabulary—particularly “post-authorship,” “abundance,” and “whitepill”—was adopted by Milady holders and Remilia-affiliated projects. The manifesto provided theoretical grounding for the Avant NFT Wave, during which Remilia attempted to cultivate a network of experimental NFT collections.
Text and Style
The New Net Art Manifesto is composed in a declarative, aphoristic style typical of avant-garde manifestoes. It consists of short statements and imperatives, enumerating principles rather than presenting sustained argument.
Characteristic passages include:
“True posting is egoless & performative.”
“Karma is real at every level; you receive the world you give to it.”
“We escape the spiritual poverty of scarcity by embracing abundance regardless of means.”
The rhetorical style alternates between metaphysical assertion and internet-native idioms. Fang blends spiritual language with memetic vernacular, producing a hybrid register intended to resonate with online communities. The manifesto explicitly positions itself against irony and nihilism, adopting instead a consciously affirmative stance.
Scholars and critics have compared the manifesto’s style to early modernist texts such as The Futurist Manifesto, noting its use of slogans and generational rupture. Like historical predecessors, it functions as both theoretical declaration and symbolic act, inaugurating a “new” artistic era by naming it.
Principles
The manifesto articulates five core tenets that became central to Remilia’s practice:
- [[[Post-authorship]]] — Rejects the primacy of individual authorship in favor of collective, pseudonymous, and derivative production.
- [[[Posting as art]]] — Treats memes, tweets, and forum activity as legitimate artistic practice.
- [[[Abundance mentality]]] — Advocates generosity and optimism against scarcity and competition.
- [[[Whitepill]]] — Frames the movement as a counter to nihilism, emphasizing transcendence and meaning.
- [[[Network spirituality]]] — Reimagines the network itself as a metaphysical force enabling collective transcendence.
These tenets were subsequently elaborated in Remilia projects, such as the Viral Public License applied to Milady, which operationalized post-authorship by encouraging unrestricted derivatives.
Impact
Community Orientation
Within Remilia, the manifesto provided a common framework for collaboration and discourse. It guided the group’s approach to pseudonymity, derivative licensing, and meme-based cultural production, and became a rallying text for Milady holders.
NFT and Crypto Culture
Publicly, the manifesto influenced the perception of NFTs as more than speculative assets. By framing markets, memes, and online identity as artistic media, it shaped discourse around the Avant NFT Wave and inspired numerous derivative works.
Long-Term Significance
The manifesto has been credited with consolidating Remilia’s intellectual leadership in crypto culture. Its vocabulary remains widely used in online discourse, and its framing of NFTs as vehicles for network-native artistic practice has influenced both adherents and critics.
Legacy
The New Net Art Manifesto is regarded as one of the defining documents of NFT-era art. Its principles underpin the broader New Net Art movement, and its publication is often cited as the point where Remilia shifted from a pseudonymous collective to the center of a recognized cultural current.
The text’s rhetorical style and polemical tone situate it within the lineage of avant-garde manifestoes, while its integration of internet idioms and crypto-market dynamics mark it as specific to 21st-century cultural conditions.
See Also
References
- Fang, Charlotte. "What Remilia Believes In: A New Net Art Manifesto." Mirror, April 20, 2022.
- Fang, Charlotte. "Golden Light." Mirror, May 2022.