Panorama of the main gallery at "The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium" (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Panorama of the main gallery at “The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium” (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Editor’s Note: During last Saturday’s The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium, Hyperallergic intern Arianne Wack talked to the people who attended the Brooklyn event and asked them what they thought of when they heard Tumblr and art. Here is her audio report:

Arianne Wack is a graduate student at NYU, studying Cultural Reporting and Criticism. She is an alumna of Ringling College of Art and Design, where she studied the finer arts, with a concentration in...