Art
This Exhibition Claims That “All Art Is Virtual”
But is it, really?
New Media
Art
A Celebration of New Media in New Mexico
CURRENTS New Media Festival has been bringing interactive art to Santa Fe for 20 years.
News
Santa Fe Gets an Art Space Dedicated to Virtual and New Media Art
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation opened the 3,500-square-foot space with exhibitions spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries.
Art
The "Wrong Biennale" Seeks to Create the Right Conditions for Digital Art
Started as a way for digital and new media artists to circumvent the elitist infrastructure of art fairs, the Wrong hosts work online, for free. This year they've added a physical exhibition in Chicago.
Art
Measuring the Social Impact of Internet Images
An ambitious exhibition at the International Center of Photography examines the relationship between new media and the offline world.
Interview
The Virtual Is Liminal: An Interview with Claudia Hart
I first met Claudia Hart in 1995, when she was living in Berlin and I had gone there to do research for a project.
Art
Why I'm Amassing an Army of Fake Social Media Followers
While wandering across a quiet church square in a small Dutch village, I'm talking on the phone with a journalist from the New York Times.
Interview
Where Are the Women of Color in New Media Art?
Not long ago I wrote an article celebrating the work being done by cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. After the piece was published, a writer, curator, and friend wrote to me to express concerns about the lack of women of color artists in the group.
Art
The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair
Moving Image would be Emily Dickinson's favorite art fair.
Art
Lampooning the Art World, One Ad at a Time
I see Bailey's face most places now because I signed up for the You Museum — the "world's first and only personalized museum that's with you wherever you go."
Art
Feeling the Current in Santa Fe
SANTA FE — This is a city best known for a gallery circuit saturated with Southwestern and traditional American Indian art; it may be less apparent that there is a dynamic contemporary art scene emerging in this bucolic desert town.
Opinion
Using New Media to Shed Light on Old Art Narratives
The internet is a visual space, where virality comes most frequently to media rich in images, whether videos, animated GIFs or simple memes. Connecting these new forms of media with all the classic ways that human beings have told visual stories is a powerful way to reanimate them, sometimes literal