Artist Victoria Selbach logged on to her computer one morning and discovered her Facebook account had been disabled due to “objectionable content.” With no prior warnings or notification, it was puzzling. She filed an inquiry with Facebook, but received no response.
Selbach, an artist whose hauntingly beautiful and tasteful nudes were featured here previously, reached out to her network of realist artists, who rallied around her. They posted her dilemma on their own walls, with a link to her website. Selbach’s site traffic soared to more than 6000 hits over night.
“There is an incredibly supportive group of realist artists networking on Facebook. It really makes you think about how much we get from each other through the community we have created and yet feels quite bizarre to know how little ownership and control we can count on from what we have built. A visual artist’s Facebook page almost becomes a curated work in it’s own right, and certainly a journal of past and future opportunities, yet we don’t really have any ownership over it.”
It is a sad commentary on our culture, when fine art is considered objectionable, but someone’s drunken party photos are not.
Tags: arts, facebook, Facebook Exile, nudes, objectionable content, victoria selbach, visual artist
Indigo jones 
May 21, 2012 at 7:45 am |
This is so true- I hope that face book is reconsidering-
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