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Internet Yami-Ichi - NYC

If you are lucky enough to be in New York this weekend, you’ll be able to attend a flea market featuring internet related goods created by artists, everything from social media notification stickers to scarfs with malware virus knitted patterns.

Originally set up in Japan, these events have been happening around the world - here is a video showcasing the last one in Amsterdam back in May this year:

The ​Internet Yami-­​Ichi​* is a free­​-to­​-attend flea market where people gather and exchange “Internet­​-ish”​things in real life. Originating in the mysterious orient** the New York edition of the Internet Yami-­Ichi will be the first in the United States and appropriately, the largest yet. Over 100 vendors will sell their stuff at Knockdown Center, a 50,000 square foot former door factory-­turned arts space in Maspeth, Queens.

Online secret society IDPW organized the first Internet Yami-Ichi in Tokyo in 2012. Since then it has travelled to Berlin, ​Sapporo​, ​Brussels​, and ​Amsterdam​. Past vendor items include glitch​­-embroidered clothing, Edward Snowden snow globes, and apps rejected by Apple. The Internet Yami-­Ichi in New York coincides with the first ever ​WWyW​ (World Wide Yami​­Ichi Weeks), simultaneous markets in Taichung, Taiwan; Linz, Austria, and Seoul, Korea.

Flea markets and the Internet are both fanatical and chaotic mixes of the amazing and the useless. In the Internet Yami-­Ichi the wills and desires which brought us online are salvaged into a social exchange celebrating the Internet, in the real world.

Organized by IDPW, exonemo, Chris Romero, and Eri Takane

You can find out more about the event here

We will be there!!!!