Opinion
Visualizing and Auralizing the Rhythms of Twitter
LOS ANGELES — What on earth is Twitter talking about? It's easy to find out: check your stream, scan some words and ta-da, you know what your friends are saying and doing.
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Virginia Center Offering Fellowships for Social Media Artists
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) has just announced an exciting plan: it will offer two fellowships specifically for social media artists. Even more surprisingly, the endeavor is being made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Opinion
A Sad Goodbye to Brooklyn Museum's 1stfans Membership
LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum announced that 1stfans, the museum world's first socially networked membership, would be coming to a close after more than three years of great programming.
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Artist Sleeps Outside Till the Grass Grows
LOS ANGELES — I first noticed a few pictures of a curious performance piece on Sina Weibo and then Ai Weiwei also posted about it on his Twitter account. Since March 24, He Yunchang, also known as A Chang, has been sleeping outside in the Beijing artist village of Caochangdi (whose name literally me
Opinion
Screenshots of Quiet Desperation
LOS ANGELES — Henry David Thoreau said it best, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Little did he realize he was predicting the advent of social media. Screenshots of Despair, a new tumblelog, taps into these moments of despair.
Opinion
A Three-Month College Sitcom on Facebook
LOS ANGELES —London/LA-based artist Ed Fornieles has created a new Facebook-based project, Dorm Daze, with 35 characters who acted out a fictitious three months of college, with a series of dramas, like a college basketball star and math geek involved in a drug ring and the unrequited love of two fr
Opinion
Pentametron Pulls Together Iambic Verse from Twitter
LOS ANGELES — Twitter is filled with poetry everyday. The short, pithy updates of 140 characters represent an ideal format for short-form verse, whether that be haiku or heroic couplets. Or, as it turns out, iambic pentameter.
Opinion
Your Facebook Laugh for the Day
From pages of Reddit's Funny section emerges this hilarious use of one of Michelangelo's most iconic images from Sistine Chapel on Facebook.
Opinion
LACMA's Rocking Social Media Campaign for Levitated Mass
LOS ANGELES —There's a giant rock in town. If you live in Los Angeles, it's almost impossible to ignore this fact. Part of that is because the rock — Michael Heizner’s "Levitated Mass" — blocked traffic on its slow journey to the heart of LA and into the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. But it's ea
Opinion
Twitter Portraits of Rupert Murdoch
Artist Michelle Vaughan continues to render tweets into letterpress. Her 100 Tweets project was the first to give the quips of the twitteratti some permanence in print but now the queen of the twitter press has created a small series devoted to the dark lord of right-wing news media himself, Rupert
Books
New Book Explores Social Media From Many Angles
We all use social media. We tweet, Facebook, tumble and pin away, and some of us even make art on these platforms. Social media have been explored in countless talks and essays, as everyone from sociologists to artists to technologists have come together to explore just why these new media are so in
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A Report from #ArtsTech's Social Media Art Panel
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