{"data":{"id":"8241","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":8241,"topgoose_id":6305,"tms_id":8241,"display_name":"Wolfgang Staehle","sort_name":"Staehle Wolfgang","display_date":"1950–","begin_date":"1950","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eWolfgang Staehle (b. 1950; Stuttgart, Germany) is the founder of THE THING, an independent media project that began in 1991 and became a seminal online and offline forum for net art. Recognized as a pioneer of internet art, his video and new media works have been exhibited worldwide. His \u003cem\u003eEmpire 24/7\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(1999–2004), a live image of the Empire State Building in New York, was first exhibited at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, in \u003cem\u003enet_condition\u003c/em\u003e (1999) and subsequently at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in \u003cem\u003eLoans from the Invisible Museum\u003c/em\u003e (2000). He had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1993) and Morimura Art Museum, Tokyo (1990). His exhibition \u003cem\u003e2001\u003c/em\u003e at Postmasters Gallery (1984–2025), New York, consisting of three live web transmissions—two in Germany and one in Lower Manhattan—famously captured the attack on and collapse of the World Trade Center in September 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500083397","wikidata_id":"Q1232132","created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:33.620-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-04T07:03:11.155-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/8241/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/8241/exhibitions"}}}}