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Tina Rivers Ryan
@TinaRiversRyan
Art historian to critic to curator to editor. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. Inquiries via form on my site.
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Aug 8, 2024
    It’s official!: “Electric Op” opens to the public on 9/27 at the @BuffaloAKG! So lucky/honored that my swan song as a curator features literal scores of amazing artists: buffaloakg.org/art/exhibition… (Yes there will be a catalog—and some fun merch too ;)
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Jan 7, 2021
    Replying to @MikeSacksEsq and @GreatDismal
    This got RTed onto my feed, which was a lovely reminder of the time you told me I could be the love of your life, except I was “too fat for you” (size 8). Refused to hold my hand in public but shared a bed with me anyway. Glad I never answered your calls again. Hope you’re well!
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Oct 19, 2017
    Hey @nflcommish @MiamiDolphins, I am a season ticket-holder and I DO NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT THIS. #TakeAKnee #BlackLivesMatter
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Mar 14, 2023
    OH MY GOD OHMYGODOHGOD I FINALLY SAW A LOWELL NESBIT COMPUTER PAINTING IN PERSON I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR THIRTEEN (?) YEARS
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Mar 26, 2024
    We just lost one of the greatest artists of our lifetimes. This one hurts more than most. RIP to a legend. #RichardSerra
    A photo of a printed text that reads: Technology is a form of tool making (body exten-sions). Technology is not art-not invention. It is a simultaneous hope and hoax. It does not concern itself with the undefined, the inexplicable: it deals with the affirmation of its own making. Technology is what we do to the Black Panthers and the Vietnamese under the guise of advancement in a materialistic theology.
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Mar 13, 2021
    I'm enraged: A company called @globalartmuseum has begun minting NFTs of works in the @rijksmuseum collection. They claim "Any revenue derived from sales or rental will be shared with the museum" to help them during the COVID. How? Does the museum know about this??
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Oct 10, 2023
    Ahem: Digital art was *already* “canonized at MoMA”—fifty-five years ago, when they acquired Charles Csuri’s “Hummingbird” film in 1968, after showing it as part of their survey “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age”
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    Cozomo de’ Medici
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    Oct 10, 2023
    Today is a monumental day in art history Congrats Pablo, Desiree, Ryan, @1OF1_art, and of course Refik on this remarkable donation Digital art is now forever canonized in the MoMA ⚡️
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Apr 9, 2018
    Replying to @moiragweigel and @cedarshims
    I went to high school with Eduardo (graduating at the top of our class together), and I’m happy to say I’ve had a low opinion of him since at least 1996. I steered so clear of him once we got to college, but he lived up to my expectations...
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Jul 12, 2022
    SHUT THE FRONT DOOR my boss just *stumbled* across this early computer work in our collection that literally none of us knew about and IT IS STUNNING albrightknox.org/artworks/19847…
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Apr 21, 2020
    Do game historians know about artist Suzanne Treister? Like, have you seen her paintings of fictional video game stills from the early 1990s?? suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amenu.…
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Jan 7, 2021
    Replying to @TinaRiversRyan @MikeSacksEsq and @GreatDismal
    Funny thing is—this was also in 2004, when you were in London teaching at that school! What a relief you weren’t a fascist though 🙌
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Apr 13, 2023
    TODAY IS THE DAY! This morning @BuffaloAKG sent out a major press release announcing our acquisition of over 500 works of art since 2019. See the story by @alexgreenberger in @artnews here: artnews.com/gallery/art-ne…
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Oct 21, 2022
    Some personal news. So much gratitude for all the artists and colleagues who have taught me, mentored me, and trusted in me. So excited for all the projects to come 💫
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    Tina Rivers Ryan
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    Nov 11, 2023
    Losing my ever-loving mind in the “Multiple Realities” show at the Walker, which ends with what the curator has taken to calling “the Tina room” 😜 Here’s a giant computer printout from 1973 called “Combinatory System” by criminally underknown Romanian artist Florin Maxa
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