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.ART Re-Emerges as “The Art World’s Exclusive Domain”

by Rea McNamara on June 6, 2016

Will the days of describing the internet as an ungentrified space finally be over? As the internet becomes an overcrowded domain space, ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domain (TLD) program is showing signs of an emerging virtual real estate boom—or at least that’s been the story for the last several years.

At the center of all this is .ART, which went live last week. The website, dotart.domains, comes less than a year after the widely-contested Top Level Domain (TLD) went to highest bidder UK Creative Ideas Limited. Judging by the art fair-esque logo and elevator pitch calling itself “the art world’s exclusive domain”, it seems the centralized online entity that is now .ART has truly been exploited by commercial interests.

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The Best of Art F City, 2015

by Rea McNamara on December 31, 2015

Revisiting the ‘Simple Net Art Diagram’, reviewing an art fair’s virtual tour, calling out Georg Baselitz, breaking news on the USC MFA Class, and even bringing back nerdocracy. Readers, we truly feel a real sense of accomplishment for the stories we wrote in 2015, especially after amassing them in a ‘Best of’ list such as this. We not only paid artists to attend art fairs, but also investigated sexism is arts publishing and even had two Renaissance cosmetics experts dish on body hair removal. Who else publishes this shit? No one.

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GIF of the Day: The Happy Galgomon GIF Factory

by Corinna Kirsch on March 31, 2015

For tiny gifs, there’s no better source than the Happy Galgomon GIF Factory. These fan-made GIFs replicate the Digimon characters from the toys, trading cards, and cartoons. There’s nothing commercial about these GIFs, though, hundreds of which have added up to create a veritable alternative encyclopedia of the Digi-brand.

Welcome to The Happy Galgomon Gif Factory! Hey, where did Galgomon go? Well, he’s around here somewhere, but Shoutmon has taken his usual place, giving a shout out to the ongoing season of Digimon!

This page is an archive of a lot of fanmade Digimon pixel art, referred to simply as “gifs” for lack of a better term. This is the result of a project that inadvertantly began in May of 2001 on the old Megchan’s Digimon Sekai messageboard.

h/t: DeviantArt

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