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# Social Media Art's Social Revolution
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/social-media-art-artnews/
- Published: 2011-06-09T13:30:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:35:18.000Z
- Description: This month's ARTnews includes an extensive feature by veteran arts writer Barbara Pollack on social media art. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in understanding the emergence of social media art and how artists are using the medium to create work.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, An Xiao Mina, ARTnews Magazine, Benjamin Lotan, Jennifer Dalton, Man Bartlett, Social Media, TheSocialGraph, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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This month’s *ARTnews* magazine includes an extensive feature by veteran arts writer Barbara Pollack on social media art. In her article, she features Hyperallergic’s [*#TheSocialGraph*](http://hyperallergic.com/thesocialgraph/) exhibition and many of the artists in the show, including An Xiao, Jennifer Dalton, Benjamin Lotan of Social Printshop and Man Bartlett, whose “[#24hKith](https://hyperallergic.com/watch-man-bartletts-24hkith-live-now/)” (2010) was performed in our offices at the end of November.

This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in understanding the emergence of social media art and how artists are using the medium to create work.

Read the whole article online [here](http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art%5Fid=3333¤t=True&ref=hyperallergic.com) or buy a copy of the magazine at your local bookstore or online through [their website](http://www.artnews.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) — as you can probably imagine the photos really do make a big difference.

*Hint: That’s me in the photo above tweeting with An Xiao in her 2010 performance at* [Escape from New York](http://escapefromnewyork.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *titled “The Artist Is Kinda Present.” Another view of that performance* [*here*](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/4613751122/in/photostream/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*