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Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of commissioned essays for The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium on Saturday, March 9, 2013. When I sent my first email in the 1990s, the internet was just beginning to hit the mainstream. The idea that we would use the internet to talk to friends we kn
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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of commissioned essay for The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium [http://hyperallergic.com/65452/announcing-the-worlds-first-tumblr-art-symposium/]. This essay is a revised and expanded version of Ben Valentine's "Tumblr as Art [http://hyperallergic.com/4
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Hyperallergic and Tumblr have joined forces to present "The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium." This project, which is part discussion and part exhibition, explores the fast evolving artistic landscape of Tumblr, one of the world’s leading social media and blogging platforms.