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An IRL “Internet Black Market” Will Return to Knockdown Center This Fall

"Internet Yami-Ichi" can be translated as "The Internet Black Market—" but since the word "yami" can also mean "sick for" or "addicted to," it could also be translated as "Internet Obsessive Market."

By Emilie Ruscoe

Sept. 22, 2016 · 1 min read

Arts & Culture

An IRL “Internet Black Market” Will Return to Knockdown Center This Fall

Emilie Ruscoe September 22, 2016Sep 22, 2016 · 1 min read

Attention, nerds and net art aficionados: Internet Yami-Ichi, the spectacularly weird free pop up market that is an IRL embodiment of the broad spectrum of web culture, returns to New York for its second iteration on Sunday, November 6th.

Last year’s Yami-Ichi included a wide range of bizarre offerings, including a WebMD booth with a performer in the role of WebMD, a service for sending snail…

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