artist
dump.fm
I'm Ryder Ripps, best known for creating the real-time image sharing site, dump.fm as well as Internet Archaeology, an online gallery of earlier internet art. My work addresses the ways in which digital ephemera online effects culture, society and the world beyond the internet. I will be discussing how the internet makes us reconsider notions of value, ownership and the purpose of art at large. I will posit that the chief purpose of art on the internet is to build community, define identity and explore curiosities of the "other" in ways that are truly unique to the technology of our times.