- A new critical approach to the artist Kehinde Wiley; he’s a jokester. “If reflection, recognition, representation—so often identified with Wiley’s work—comprised its entire attraction, I’d be grateful for its existence, in the same way that I’m grateful for the existence of, say, Tyler Perry. Mere existence is a real and valuable politics, one whose importance shouldn’t be underestimated. But this, for me, is where the difficulty starts with Wiley: If his paintings have any value as art qua art, that value lies in something else—his best paintings read as jokes. [The Awl]
- A conceptual art project to destroy the “worst part of America,” Oklahoma, and replace it with a freshwater lake. [Kickstarter]
- Net artists, get $500 to make browser-based art with Rhizome’s Net Art Microgrants. Dooooo it. [Rhizome]
- Postinternet public art comes to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. [Observer]
- Activists intent on saving Sweet Briar College, a women’s college in Virgina, will now be installed as board members. Former board members who voted to close the college this past March, have already been purged. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Ello, which debuted in 2014 as a serious competitor to Facebook, is now rolling out ads on Facebook. Some are totally creepy, and call out FB for its surveillance practices. [Tech.Mic]
Teenagers Internet tricksters never designed condoms that will change color when exposed to sexually transmitted diseases. [Hopes & Fears]- “Thanks to @facebook forcing me to use my real name, I am now at more risk of rape and death threats. But enjoy flogging that data, guys.” Journalist Laurie Penny got kicked off Facebook for using a pseudonym, even though she was doing it so that she wouldn’t get trolled. [The Guardian]
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Corinna, I am very curious what the point of including that kickstarter on the frontpage is. Is it just a joke, or what? After watching their kickstarter video and looking through the literature, it seems less of a joke and sly type of incredibly mean spirited political bullying, and honestly just pours fuel on flames of the divisiveness in this country. Reposting it here feels like an attack. I feel like this isn’t a safe space. I wonder if I am allowed to feel triggered because I remember how the country felt after Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah building. Remember when the day care center for employees of the building was blown to bits and all of the children were literally vaporized from the ammonium nitrate blast? Well, it’s been 20 years, I guess now is the time to poke fun at the state that managed to survive one of the worst terrorist attacks on domestic soil. Call me thin skinned, but I don’t see the humor in subtitles like “Everyone knows Oklahoma sucks” paired with a map of the united states that depicts which part of the country is either ‘awesome’ or not. Notably absent is the entire geographic region which encompasses more than 80% of African Americans in the united states from this ‘awesome’ map. The Internet has become a breeding ground to non-stop hate. In this case, the ‘america hate’ from Americans usually only exists as long as the hate is aimed at some other state. I can see something like this existing in a footnote in the Onion’s ‘Our stupid world’ book–a publication I always felt uneasy about. My suspicions were confirmed when that same publication called Quvenzhane Wallis a “c-nt” . Bottom line, I feel this post is a passive aggressive form of bullying.
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