WHAT IS
DON’T DELETE ART?
Don’t Delete Art (DDA) is a project drawing attention to the damage done when art is censored in online environments. We are a collaboration of artist-activists and human rights organizations advocating for greater protection of artistic expression across platforms.
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Join us for a special event with SHEROES COLLECTIVE!
Sheroes Thursdays : Women Activist Artists on Social Media Censorship
Thursday February 6th
2pm EST // 7pm GMT // 8pm CET
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Read How Meta’s New Strategies and Policies Could Affect Artists!
In all the breathless takes about Zuckerberg’s Meta twist, the fate of artists on Meta platforms was conspicuously unexamined.
Read the article by DDA’s editor-at-large Emma Shapiro
Thank you to Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the National Coalition Against Censorship, Fight For The Future, and Article 19 for your valuable insights included in this piece.
We’re sure you have questions, concerns, and hopes about Meta’s changes, and we do, too. The only way we will know how this will affect artists, is if you continue to report your experiences to Don’t Delete Art. As such, we have updated our Artist’s Instagram Account Status Survey & Report Form HERE to accept reports about what you are experiencing and what is changing.
This week’s featured artist from the DDA Gallery of Art Censored Online:
Kenneth Gruenholtz
“Much of my Couples work is inspired by the Berlin Memorial which acknowledges the discrimination and violence gay men endured during WWII. I discovered the memorial just four years ago during a visit to Berlin. It consists of a small black shack across the street from the Holocaust Memorial. The shack has only one window and when you look through it, there’s a one-minute black and white loop of two attractive young men, fully clothed, caressing and kissing one another in an affectionate manner. For me, the memorial was incredibly moving—why would anyone want to harm something so beautiful?
After seeing the memorial, I decided to create a COUPLES series that would likewise endeavor to present positive images of gay men together. However, the Instagram algorithm, by deleting this image and other positive images of men together, is now preventing me from sharing my COUPLES work and sharing the positive message of the Berlin memorial.”
See what else they’ve been hiding from you
If you know of art that has been removed or downranked (a.k.a. “shadowbanned”) online, submit it for consideration to be included in DDA’s Gallery for Art Censored Online, a rotating curated feature that illustrates what kinds of art is being suppressed online.
HAS YOUR ARTWORK BEEN DOWNRANKED OR DELETED ONLINE?
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Artist's Instagram Account Status Survey & Report Form
Now more than ever, Instagram's content moderation remains a critical issue.
We want to know what is happening, how it's happening, and how it is affecting you as an artist -- only YOU know what is happening in your account, and that information could be key. -
DDA MANIFESTO
Social media corporations have become cultural gatekeepers with unprecedented power to determine which art works can freely circulate and which ones are banned or pushed into the digital margins.
JOIN US and THOUSANDS of artists, curators, critics, galleries, historians, students, and cultural institutions in telling social media companies that there must be greater support of artistic expression on social media.
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Censorship Art Spots: Open Call!
Inspired by MTV’s 1985 “Art Breaks” series, we are calling for videos from the DDA community artistically responding to the problem of online art censorship and drawing attention to the obstacles and frustrations that come with it.
SUBMIT YOURS TODAY
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DDA Store
Don’t Delete Art is made possible by in-kind volunteered time. Purchasing our merch helps us stay afloat & continue our goals fighting for artists who are censored online. Thank you for your purchase. We appreciate you!
Currently only available in the U.S.
