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The location sharing functions of social media have enabled street art to become globalised, a piece shared on Instagram with the right hashtags can become viral, inciting a virtual response across the globe. Experienced as a digital object, street art also has the opportunity to endure and reach a larger audience, it is no longer victim of its ...
Nov 29, 2023 · 5. DeviantArt. DeviantArt is the cornerstone of the art community thanks to the unique way it blends its showcasing platform with a social networking element. Its features, like galleries, groups, and critiques, provide a blank canvas for artists to display their work and engage with like-minded individuals.
- Which platform is best for beginners and why?Instagram’s a top pick if you’re just getting started, thanks to its easy-to-use interface and big emphasis on visuals. It’s the perfect starting p...
- How can I monetize my art on social media?YouTube and Twitter/X provide ad revenue, while ArtStation comes with its own marketplace to sell your masterpieces. Over on Instagram, the “Shop”...
- How important is community engagement for an artist?Engaging with your community is key to growing a devoted fan base and getting your work seen. Reddit and Twitter are a cut above for having real co...
Dec 28, 2020 · In March, Stefanie Trilling, a mother of two, began painting quarantine-themed versions of popular children’s books. She ended up making 114 in total, featuring 2020 takes on beloved classics ...
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- Petra Cortright’Svvebcam, 2007
- Lauren Christiansen, Brad Troemel, and Other Artists: The Jogging, 2009-14
- Hennessy Youngman (Jayson MUSSON), “Art Thoughtz,” 2010-12
- Sara Ludy, “Projection Monitor,”2010-14
- Constant Dullaart, High Retention, Slow Delivery, 2014
- Amalia Ulman: Excellences & Perfections, 2014
- American Artist: A Refusal, 2015-16
Uploaded to YouTube just two years after the video-sharing site was launched, Cortright’s VVEBCAMis an exercise in simplicity: the artist gazes blankly into a webcam (or, really, at the screen beneath the cam) as Ceephax’s “Summer Frosby” plays off of her computer and a range of cartoony stock effects (dancing pizza slices, falling leaves, etc.) fl...
This collective project, spearheaded by Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen along with Joshua Citarella, Spencer Longo, Haley Mellin, Rachael Milton, Jesse Stecklow, Artie Vierkant, Andrew Norman Wilson, and submissions by thousands of other artists, is in part an attempt to answer an age-old question: “what is art?” While philosophers and artists...
Though arguably just as much a work of art criticism as it is an art project, Jayson Musson’s 25 YouTube videos released under the moniker Hennessy Youngman stand as vital documents of the shift in contemporary art from rarefied academic discipline to career-driven striving, a change precipitated in no small part from the rise of social media itsel...
Remember Second Life? For a while after its 2003 launch, it seemed that the virtual world created by Linden Lab would be the one to finally make good on the promises of ‘90s techno-utopians, who saw the Internet as a place of unbridled creative expression and social connectivity where anyone could reimagine themselves as anything else. But, like so...
The Dutch artist Constant Dullaart is known for a variety of conceptual projects centered around the Internet and digital technologies, many of which are relatively complex and specific to the history of computing. This one, however, is fairly simple: for $5,000, Dullaart purchased some 2.5 million fake Instagram followers, which he distributed amo...
A project that has been lauded as “the first Instagram masterpiece” by the London Telegraph, and which has earned her spots in shows from the Tate Modern to the New Museum, Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfectionshas created a new standard for what’s possible in an online performance. Over the course of six months in 2014, the Argentinean-born arti...
Though by design not as splashy as some of the other entries on this list, American Artist’s (yes, that’s his name) performance project is a subtle reminder of the hidden economics at the heart of supposedly “free” sites like Facebook. Over the course of a full year, Artist redacted all content he would ordinarily have posted online for his followe...
Jan 24, 2019 · When it comes to canonization, “Net Art Anthology” is a consciously open canon, tracing but one of many possible paths through the history of net art. There are a thousand ways to skin this cat, and this is ours. And even within the 100 works that we’ve featured, one can trace a variety of mini histories and canons: a history of feminist ...
Nov 10, 2022 · Artists such as Ines Alpha and Andy Picci are paradigmatic example of how a new generation of artists emerges and feeds on the culture of social networks. Through the creation of filters and AR ...
06. ‘Emoji Nation’ by Nastya Ptichek. Nastya Ptichek ’s work combines classical paintings with Emoji and other forms of online communication in a five-part series that explores the way social media has changed how we communicate and express ourselves. In part 2 of the series Ptichek superimposes online symbols over oil paintings by Edward ...
