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This is the false promise of “digital girlhood” art that appropriates female tropes to appeal for attention. Instead of bucking “girl” trends, Man invents a new one: the “Irony-Poisoned Girl” who revels in her own demise.

With the ever-growing surge of the female-gaze, the era of the “Girl Crush” has begun. Held at Heavy Manners Library in Echo Park, “Girl Crush” was the debut event for Heart House – alumnus Maya Man’s newly established curatorial endeavor.

New "anti-Instagram" apps like BeReal claim to help users be more authentic online, but the distinction between real and fake isn’t quite that simple.

Credit: Courtesy of SuperRare Nate Mohler’s “Grunge City,” 2021, 57 seconds. Edition of 1. Part of the “Painted Cities” series. Mohler, a UCLA design media arts alumnus, has released 12 artworks as NFTs, and nine have sold. The challenge that digital artists, curators and collectors have faced for decades has been how to sell artwork that is by nature infinitely reproducible. Unlike a painting or sculpture, digital artworks can be reduced to a series of 0s and 1s, or an algorithm that...