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SIGN THE DON’T DELETE ART MANIFESTO TODAY!
Social media has become a key way for artists to share and sell their work. During the first year of the pandemic, it replaced art fairs as the third-most successful vehicle for galleries to sell art. Yet social media platforms often punish artists for posting images of works that have won awards and are shown in major museums.
Artists’ perspectives should play a central role in the creation and enforcement of content moderation policies on social media.
Social media content policies do not take into account artistic contexts, especially when considering lens-based art or untraditional mediums, and their application and  enforcement is routinely overbroad. As a result, art that celebrates the human form (which art has done for tens of thousands of years); explores geopolitical issues; comments on or critiques anything from the opioid crisis to gun violence in the US may be subject to removal or severe account downranking. This censorship is affecting artists in the US and around the world.
Don’t Delete Art (DDA)—an initiative involving NCAC’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, Artists at Risk Connection, Freemuse, and artist-activists Savannah Spirit, Spencer Tunick, and Emma Shapiro—has launched its latest information and advocacy campaign, the Don’t Delete Art Manifesto, to address arts censorship on social media.
Though artists, galleries, and even major museums have experienced censorship as a result of restrictive social media content policies, censorship incidents are often isolated and occur in relative obscurity. The DDA Manifesto is an effort to change this by convening art world voices to demand change.
The Manifesto has collected nearly 2,100 signatures from artists, curators, arts educators, cultural workers, institutions, and patrons from 89 countries. Please join us in demanding greater access to artistic expression and sign the DDA Manifesto.
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DON'T DELETE ART IN THE NEWS
On Social Media, Art Censorship Is Alive and Well
Hyperallergic, April 27, 2023
The artist- and activist-led “Don’t Delete Art” project targets social media platforms using suppressive content moderation algorithms. Read More
Don’t delete art! Project documenting censorship on social media launches manifesto
The Art Newspaper, March 3, 2023
New campaign hopes to convince companies like Facebook and Instagram to bring artists into the content moderation process. Read More
The Week in Art Podcast
Art Newspaper Weekly Podcast, March 23, 2023
It is becoming increasingly clear that social media corporations have become self-appointed cultural gatekeepers that decide which works of art can freely circulate, be pushed into the digital margins or even banned. Read More
Don't Delete Art group launches manifesto targeting social media censorship
UPI, March 5, 2023
Don't Delete Art, a group founded in 2020 to document art censorship on social media, has blasted tech giants as "cultural gatekeepers" in a new manifesto that particularly takes aim at the moderation of nudity in art. Read More
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