Art
CHICAGO — People online have a lot to say about selfies: love them, hate them, feel indifferent about them, think they're part of internet culture, a place we escape to, meld with our offline lives (making for a fluid but often fraught IRL-URL existence), something we learn from. If the selfie is th
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CHICAGO — "Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded," 29-year-old spy Edward Snowden told the Guardian last Sunday, openly identifying himself as the whistleblower on the NSA PRISM program, which he alleged is gathering communications data not just from foreigners,
Art
MELBOURNE, Australia — Cycling around the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, I noticed a small shop entirely covered in photographs: the shop-front, the door, the lintel, everything. I stopped. Was it the work of someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder? Was it some kind of art installation? When I
Art
There was a period when I didn't know what, exactly a "selfie" was. It sounded like a euphemism for something. Now I know that it's just a self-portrait — our medium of choice for Facebook and Instagram (RIP). Two recent phenomena, faked selfies and art critic Brian Droitcour's #artselfies, take the