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Everyone Is a Girl Online NPC influencers, "girl dinner," angels, bimbos—the internet is a girl's world now, whether you like it or not. “WHAT DO YOU mean my actions have consequences? I’m literally just a girl.” This year, your feed has _...Read More_
Everyone Is a Girl Online NPC influencers, "girl dinner," angels, bimbos—the internet is a girl's world now, whether you like it or not. “WHAT DO YOU mean my actions have consequences? I’m literally just a girl.” This year, your feed has _...Read More_
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“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.”
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"It’s been a tough year for physical art, with works by Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst getting uploaded to the cloud, then incinerated. From the split-personality films of Lynn Hershman Leeson to Celia Hempton’s recent laptop-size canvases _...Read More_
"It’s been a tough year for physical art, with works by Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst getting uploaded to the cloud, then incinerated. From the split-personality films of Lynn Hershman Leeson to Celia Hempton’s recent laptop-size canvases _...Read More_
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A.I. Is Sucking the Entire Internet In. What If You Could Yank Some Back Out? Two musicians brokered a deal to save 80 million images from Stable Diffusion. Are they enablers or heroes? _...Read More_
A.I. Is Sucking the Entire Internet In. What If You Could Yank Some Back Out? Two musicians brokered a deal to save 80 million images from Stable Diffusion. Are they enablers or heroes? _...Read More_
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"Why are so many people obsessing over an 18-year-old’s face?"
"Why are so many people obsessing over an 18-year-old’s face?"
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"We are experiencing a crisis of trust in online media. The internet has taught us to distrust TV pundits, news media and other authority figures (often rightly so), yet has failed to provide tools to help us identify who we should trust. _...Read More_
"We are experiencing a crisis of trust in online media. The internet has taught us to distrust TV pundits, news media and other authority figures (often rightly so), yet has failed to provide tools to help us identify who we should trust. _...Read More_
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"Utopia/Dystopia, A Paradigm Shift, is the first group show that will occupy the entirety of the museum’s new building. The exhibition present side by side works of artists and architects who, in their respective fields, have produced _...Read More_
"Utopia/Dystopia, A Paradigm Shift, is the first group show that will occupy the entirety of the museum’s new building. The exhibition present side by side works of artists and architects who, in their respective fields, have produced _...Read More_
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"I know people think I’m poor because they’re always telling me I should write a book. I never tell anyone to write a book. Whenever I meet someone who has just published a book, there is a high probability that I hate their book and all my _...Read More_
"I know people think I’m poor because they’re always telling me I should write a book. I never tell anyone to write a book. Whenever I meet someone who has just published a book, there is a high probability that I hate their book and all my _...Read More_
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"In the past few years there have been radical transformations within internet subcultures. For many of us who grew up online – as nerds, gamers, or introverted artists – the internet was a place you could go to “be a loser with your _...Read More_
"In the past few years there have been radical transformations within internet subcultures. For many of us who grew up online – as nerds, gamers, or introverted artists – the internet was a place you could go to “be a loser with your _...Read More_
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"What was net art and what can we learn from it? In the 1990s, the Internet offered a chance to redefine the relationship between art, theory, politics, and the public. Mostly overlooked by the art world at the time, this art movement is _...Read More_
"What was net art and what can we learn from it? In the 1990s, the Internet offered a chance to redefine the relationship between art, theory, politics, and the public. Mostly overlooked by the art world at the time, this art movement is _...Read More_
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"A new exhibition examines the relationship between internet and art from how we view older pieces to how newer visions have been shaped by online tools"
"A new exhibition examines the relationship between internet and art from how we view older pieces to how newer visions have been shaped by online tools"
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"Art both expresses and reflects the society in which it was produced. In an Internet-obsessed society it hardly comes as a surprise, then, that Internet art is thriving"
"Art both expresses and reflects the society in which it was produced. In an Internet-obsessed society it hardly comes as a surprise, then, that Internet art is thriving"
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"Ben Tarnoff’s history of networked life and the rise of a corporate-controlled web doubles as a polemic, arguing for a people-first Internet."
"Ben Tarnoff’s history of networked life and the rise of a corporate-controlled web doubles as a polemic, arguing for a people-first Internet."
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"NO ONE WOULD DENY THAT THE INTERNET has altered the tenor, the feel, the style of public life. The web contains much of the record of that life, and in turn directs how that life is conducted."
"NO ONE WOULD DENY THAT THE INTERNET has altered the tenor, the feel, the style of public life. The web contains much of the record of that life, and in turn directs how that life is conducted."
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"Our popular culture of the present moment is permeated with nostalgia for earlier iterations of the web, stories of a time when the internet was the milieu of the weird — of “wizards and geeks,” in the words of a 2006 Pew report. Yet these _...Read More_
"Our popular culture of the present moment is permeated with nostalgia for earlier iterations of the web, stories of a time when the internet was the milieu of the weird — of “wizards and geeks,” in the words of a 2006 Pew report. Yet these _...Read More_