Art
There are important questions that art world thinkers have asked themselves for decades. Why should art be confined to the white cube? When does something become art? How do you define art? These are important questions to ask, but I am going to ignore them for this photo essay on dog art. Are these
Opinion
In light of Jerry Sandusky's recent conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys, the statue of Joe Paterno, the former football coach of Pennsylvania State University who failed to alert authorities to the abuse, outside the school's Beaver Stadium has quickly become an extremely controversial symbol. A
Interview
Occupy.here uses a wifi router to create a network for discussion for only a locale audience. By bypassing the traditional internet, Phiffer is working to make a free, open, unregulated and community based platform for exchange.
Opinion
GRRRR.net, by Ingo Giezendanner, is a mystifying and beautiful internet adventure to stumble upon. With seemingly endless compartments and levels to wander through, I spent nearly two hours exploring it recently.
Art
While thinking about how the internet is changing how we find and promote art, it's important to highlight a new tool that might help us understand our online presence: Klout. What is an artist's reach? How many people can be expected to show up for a young artist's solo show? Which critics really m
Art
The work of Social Practice is on the rise, but compared to the traditional art world news of auction prices and gallery openings, it doesn't seem to be receiving as much online attention.
Opinion
Brendan Chilcutt's Museum of Endangered Sounds is an online, interactive museum of the old sounds from outdated technology.
Art
Mark Boulos's two-projector video installation at MoMA, "All that Is Solid Melts into Air" (2008), is a chilling investigation into two separate but entwined worlds.
Art
After thinking through the idea of Tumblr as art, I began to find the difference between various social media platforms glaringly obvious. Marshall McCluhan's phrase "the medium is the message" came to mind. How do settings and mediums change or possibly mandate artistic intention? After exploring T
Opinion
Can artists use the large amount of raw-data and new programmatic tools to represent information more clearly and passionately than scientists can?
Opinion
I recently stumbled across a video of writer Jon Ronson confronting a Twitter bot that was "stealing" Ronson's personality. The surreal (or is it hyperreal?) video and the subsequent article written by two of those interviewed in the video, Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason, is a fascinating glimpse
Opinion
After "Statue Porn," my first post for Hyperallergic, was published earlier this year, some commenters responded by asking what a quality interaction with public art might look like. It's easy to spot silly or sexual interactions, but what are examples of people engaging with public art in a more se