In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees start out talking about artists who have been kicked off of Instagram, but quickly devolve into how social media platforms can be problematic ways of engaging with the art world.
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In her farewell lecture, Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson discusses the history of the site and reveals our top 5 articles of all time (to date).
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Protect Your Data: Rice University to Host Symposium on Data Privacy
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechIf you're a Houston-based internet user who is concerned about data privacy on Facebook, Rice University has you covered.
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Facebook’s disabling of my account in November has led me to examine the history of Facebook’s censorship of art as reported in the press, which I share here in chronological order.
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This November, San Antonio art historian Ruben Cordova's account was blocked by Facebook.
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You could publish the most interesting and entertaining article in the history of humanity on Facebook, but if you don’t put money behind it, nobody will ever see it.
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As reported in The Atlantic, a new Russian app called FindFace makes it possible to identify total strangers on the street using your cameraphone and its facial recognition software. The article…
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It took a few years before Facebook started to become creepy for me.
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Micol Hebron Banned from Facebook for Posting Glasstire Article About Being Banned from Facebook
In a move that puts them in the running for the George Orwell censorship awards, Facebook has again temporarily banned LA-based artist Micol Hebron. As we previously reported, Hebron recently…
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The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist goes through while projecting themselves…
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It’s been a while. Many people have contacted me with the same question: “Doesn’t Laura Lark love me anymore?” To this I‘ve replied: “Laura Lark loves you as much as she…
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NY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million…
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Last week, a Facebook friend of mine — an artist living in Dallas whom I’ve never actually met — caught my attention when he posted this on Facebook after his recent visit to…