Disruptive Cultures: Affects and Effects of Social Media

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Disruptive Cultures: Affects and Effects of Social Media

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Reception Date
Saturday Apr 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
Event Date/Time
Saturday Apr 4, 2026, 12:00 pm to Saturday Jun 27, 2026, 6:00 pm
Saturday Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Disruptive Cultures: Affect and Effects of Social Media considers how social media can produce visceral, emotional responses in users and has significant cultural and social ramifications. The exhibition presents artists who reflect, interrogate, critique, and seize the power of social media. Many exploit its crucial characteristic: how interface design and AI algorithms generate the effects of engagement but also elicit affect from the viewer. While most artists use existing commercial applications, some generate new forms of engagement, creating repositories for cultural memory and platforms for community reparation.

Opening reception and admission are open and free to the public.

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Disruptive Cultures is supported by The Beall Family Foundation, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and UCI Office of Research. 

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Event Date/Time: 
Saturday Apr 4, 2026, 12:00 pm to Saturday Jun 27, 2026, 6:00 pm
Saturday Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Reception Date: 
Saturday Apr 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
Free or Paid: 
This is a Free Event