On Chicago’s 3D Printer Experience: Given the profit potential of 3D printing, “it may come as a surprise that the Midwest’s first public foray into the technology is based on promoting public access to, rather than privatizing, this revolutionizing technology.”

For its 2013–14 grant cycle, Rhizome has a new category: Tumblr-based art. Three grants of $1,000 to $5,000 will go to “projects from emerging artists engaged with Tumblr.” Jury members include Laurie Anderson and Massimiliano Gioni, among others.

The Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset project switched to a new work by net-art pioneers JODI on March 5. For 30 seconds twice daily, goodmorning goodnight scrapes text from Livedash and imagery from Panoramio for a real-time exploration of Manhattan’s light cycles.

MoMA’s post, an “online journal, archive, exhibition space, and open forum” aimed at exploring “multiple and alternative narratives of art’s histories,” launched Friday as part of its Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age initiative.

Art historical emojis—emoticons or pictograms used originally in Japanese text messages—are taking off: the new hashtag #emojiarthistory is chronicling the best, from Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece to On Kawara’s date paintings to Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures.

The Getty has relaunched its Iris blog as an online magazine featuring original writing, “Art News From Around the Web,” and the new social media series “Getty Voices,” which includes weekly topical discussions on the site, Facebook, and Twitter. Congrats!

The “first exclusively online biennial exhibition of contemporary art” launches in April. Led by artistic director Jan Hoet, of Germany’s MARTa Herford, the virtual exhibition costs $80 for access during the first week, but come July, admission is free.

The Dept. of Justice’s prosecution of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide Friday, was “excessive and vindictive,” writes Glenn Greenwald of the Internet freedom activist accused of taking academic articles off JSTOR, presumably to distribute them for free.

A new Pew study, “Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies,” finds that of more than 1,200 arts organizations surveyed 77% agreed that digital technologies “played a major role in broadening the boundaries of what is considered art.”