News
How do you capture and preserve the experience of a new media artwork created on Twitter in 2010? How do you re-create the design and feel of Twitter's interface at that time, and populate that interface with users' contemporaneous profile photos?
Art
Can you imagine ads being sold on a Mark Rothko canvas? Sponsorships, perhaps, stuck discreetly to a corner of the canvas? After all, artworks get a lot of eyeballs, and that audience isn’t really getting monetized as much as it could be.
Art
What's the best way to show artwork — both made for the web and not — online? How do we bring net art into the physical space of a gallery? These are two of the questions that curators, artists, and others in the art world are increasingly confronting and most likely will be for a while. Two attempt
Opinion
On eBay right now, you can buy a piece of tape used to mark the position of the visitors' chair for Marina Abramović's epic 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art. That might strike you as a fairly minute and extreme bit of fan ephemera, which it may very well be. But it's also an artwork by M
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
Art
In 2010 I came close. It was around the time that there was a big stink about Facebook's changes to its Privacy Policy. Remember that? No? It's cool, I'd forgotten too, despite how upset I was at the time. I told myself then that I couldn't afford to leave my "network." And that was probably true. F
Art
Responsibility for conservation or the decision to choose not to, is a growing question, and rests mostly on the artist.
Art
CHICAGO — The sixth installment of a series in which artists send me a photo and a description of their workspace. This week, Brooklyn, Portland, London, Baltimore and Ashford, Connecticut.
Art
On Wednesday I attended "Social Media Week Edition: Social Media Art," the newest in a series of Arts, Culture and Technology Meetups. These meetups, organized by Julia Kaganskiy, global editor for The Creators Project and co-director of Blue Box Gallery, are all about the potential for technology i
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We listed tonight's #ArtsTech social media art panel in last week's Art Rx and — as expected — it's sold out! Over 125 people have RSVPs and the waiting list is 75 people deep. Thankfully the group has decided to livestream the event tonight between 7:30 and 9pm EST.
Art
America has finally woken up to discover that the free life they thought they were living is really governed by a system. A system designed at first glance to be “for the people, by the people.” But in recent years we’ve all realized that this is furthest from the truth. Facets of the system are und
Interview
Earlier today we reported that artist Man Bartlett had been arrested early Thursday morning during the #N17 Day of Action. We also reported that the artist was released from jail after being detained for roughly 27 hours. We gave him some time to rest and then caught up with him to hear about his ex