Artist responses to Charlie Hedbo, creative protests to the Ferguson verdict, and a mattress performance on US campus have gone viral creating a new generation of art activists.
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Visual Arts
Harvard medical students stage a die-in 9 December 2014; via Instagram @AshleyBSunshine
Artists have long addressed social, political, gender and racial issues through their art. So what is new? In one word – technology.
The Internet has become a performative community that extends, and completes, an artwork making social media a key medium for many artists working in, and responding to, social issues
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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