Opinion
Chat Bots and Big Data
OAKLAND, Calif. — With our data-driven lives, so much of what we do can be seen through the lens of algorithms.
Social Media
Opinion
Going Private: From WeChat to SnapChat
Around this time last year, Instagram caused a flurry after attempting to change its terms of service — what the Globe and Mail's Russell Smith called "an apparent move to appropriate and sell every user’s photos." Smith pondered how growing awareness of the public documentation of our private lives
Art
Artists Auction Their Facebook Profiles
Organized by Bailey, Mathé and Hunt, a one-day event placed artists' social media profiles up for bidding.
Opinion
The Found Poetry of Google Autocomplete
Could our collective searches generate beauty? I, and presumably 60,000+ others, have been intrigued by Google Poetics, a Twitter account consisting of found poetry from Google search terms.
Art
A Look at the Social Media Impact of #BanksyNY Residency
Editor's Note: Post-#BanksyNY residence, we turned to our number cruncher, Zachary McCune, to analyze the social media impact of the Banksy residency.
Interview
The New Digital Puritans: Social Network Censorship #NSFW
Reuben Negron, an artist who lives and works in Connecticut and New York, is best known for his realistic watercolor depictions of intimate moments, ranging from the raw to the vulnerable. His scenes often give me the impression of looking in a mirror. Negron's series This House of Glass, “an intima
News
Woman Arrested for Instagramming Street Art
20-year-old artist Jennifer Pawluck was arrested Wednesday morning at 10:30am after posting a picture of anti-police street art on her Instagram feed a few days before.
Art
The Way We Share: Transparency in Curatorial Practice
We've heard the argument that everyone's a curator online by means of blogging and reblogging, but what about the professional curators who are responsible for producing major physical exhibitions — how are they using social platforms? The ability to publicly explore new theories, archive research,
Art
Tumblr, Art, and Web 2.0 Ecologies: The Medium Is Still the Message
On the eve of web 2.0, there were a few sites emerging like Zing.com, an early place for photo sharing. The technology of self-surveillance wasn't up to speed at that point to make them stick though. Facebook and smartphones would go on to complete the social shift to "sharing." "Overexposed Dancing
Art
Our Reblogs, Ourselves
For centuries, images were a fairly quantifiable, classifiable thing. One could, if one wanted, generally divide them into two categories: those made by artists and those not; artworks and everything else. There were always complications, of course — where did photojournalism fall, or works made by
Art
On Coffee Houses, Salons, and the Post Arts
So back in the late 15th century, Ottoman people started gathering to drink together. The beverage they consumed? The magical elixir and arguably the greatest drink known to humanity, coffee.
Art
Tell Me About Your Mother's Tumblr
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of commissioned essays for The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium on Saturday, March 9, 2013. I created my first internet artwork in 1993. At the time I was trying to have my work shown by various galleries but without success. The piece was titled “BKPC"