The Last Acres of the Internet
Iframe, 2026
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About the artwork
The internet became part of everyday life, and short domain names started selling like land in Manhattan. This project sells the opposite: domain names made of meaningless 63-character strings, the maximum length you can register, sold under the title Last Acres of the Internet. On each of these domains grows an HTML wilderness, generated from random strings. Whoever buys one owns the name and the wilderness that comes with it, and can build whatever they want there. The internet has been developed down to its last corner. This is a tribute to the net.art pioneers who once treated it like open land, and an escape to its farthest edge.
exonemo is an artist duo formed by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa in 1996, active since the early days of the Internet. Traversing the boundaries between digital and analog, as well as the physical and informational realms, their work explores the transformations of a networked society with sharp critical insight and humor.
Their honors include the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica (2006) and the Award for the Arts from Japan's culture ministry (2021). While they have exhibited at museums and galleries including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, their practice extends beyond art. The Internet Yami-Ichi, a flea market–style event they founded to bring internet culture into physical space, has spread to over 30 cities worldwide.