Abstract
As artists who live in the post-Internet era, it is inevitable that we need to face the virtual and real culture created by technology. We have to show solicitude for the human being who relies on digital life, and consider the reflexive relationships between people and machine. We should be wary of and ascertain the ambiguous intersection of the real and virtual world when we switch between our real and virtual lives. We need to understand that we are already living in a centralized and controlled age of Surveillance Capitalism. Discussing and critiquing net culture in the manner of art practice is a thinking process of reconstruction, exploration, participation, exposure, and connection. The research analyzes the context of reflexivity criticism from the development of Internet Art to Post-Internet Art. Based on Socially Engaged Internet Art, this research performs textual analysis on three topics: ＂the dream and reality of cyber utopia,＂ ＂performance, privacy, and peeping in digital surveillance,＂ and ＂the supremacy and manipulation of cyber capitalism.＂ The article will acknowledge the critical consciousness and practical significance of socially engaged Internet art.