State of Art Blogging Panel

This month ArtsTech is proud to welcome Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic.com (http://hyperallergic.com/) as co-organizer and moderator of a panel examining the current state of art blogging. Together we've assembled a diverse group representing today's top art bloggers — ranging from the scrappy, indie blog to institutional and news sites. They'll discuss the current landscape of contemporary art criticism on the Internet and the challenges and opportunities art bloggers face today.

Hrag Vartanian is co-founder and editor of Hyperallergic. (http://hyperallergic.com/) He serves on the board of the Triangle Arts Association (http://triangleworkshop.org/) and volunteers on numerous educational committees. He has written extensively about street art, performance art, social media art and multicultural issues. He resides online at hragv.com (http://hragv.com/) and tweets a lot at @hragv (http://twitter.com/hragv).

Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City (http://www.artfagcity.com/). In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com (http://artreview.com/), Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine,Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Two years later, Paddy was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards and won The 2010 and 2011 Village Voice award for Best Art Blog. Paddy also writes a regular column on art for The L Magazine. (@artfagcity (https://twitter.com/#!/artfagcity))

Rebecca Stokes is Director of Digital Marketing Communications at The Museum of Modern Art. As Editor-in-Chief of the Museum’s INSIDE/OUT (http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out) blog, she collaborates with colleagues throughout MoMA and outside bloggers to ensure a lively and timely mix of daily content, and also contributes her own. Recent videos include interviews with actor Helen Mirren and artist Lee Quinones. She previously oversaw editorial and prospect research operations of External Affairs and created written and visual materials used to successfully raise $858 million for MoMA’s capital campaign in 2004.

Carolina A. Miranda is a Brooklyn-based writer who has penned articles on culture for magazines such as Time, ArtNews and Fast Company on a range of subjects, including skatepark design, video game art and architectural pedagogy. She is a regular contributor at WNYC New York Public Radio. Previously, she was a staff reporter at Time. She blogs at C-Monster.net (http://c-monster.net/) and in January of 2010, the New York Times named her one of nine people to follow on Twitter (@cmonstah (https://twitter.com/#!/cmonstah)).

Andrew Russeth is a writer in New York. He edits The New York Observer's GalleristNY (http://www.galleristny.com/) website, and publishes a blog about contemporary art in New York called 16 Miles of String (http://www.16miles.com/), which has been supported by Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. His writing has recently appeared in Modern Painters and on Paper Monument's website. (@AndrewRusseth (https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewRusseth))