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.”

Plenty of Walker friends make HuffPo’s list of top art tweeters, from artists in our collection to critics, art bloggers, and institutions. Listed: MASS MOCA, Raymond Pettibon, Carolina Miranda, Museum Nerd, Tyler Green, and others.

With investors pumping money into online art sites, Julia Halperin asks, “[C]an a cultural sector that typically relies on exclusivity, personal contact, and (often) opacity make an effective transition to the web?” Then there’s the monetization question.

What happens when contemporary artists, including Alex da Corte and Joe Kay, try their hands at making animated GIFs: Bruce Naumann-like loops of a perpetually lit/extinguished candle or an Untitled Film Still featuring a blinking Cindy Sherman.

Calling the animated GIF “one of the internet’s most creative canvases since its availability,” Rhizome looks at a new development—GIFS that transcend their two-dimensional context. Behold: 3D animated GIFs.

The Current, MPR’s rock station and a frequent Walker media partner, launches a new website Thursday, designed by former Walker new media designer Justin Heideman. Now in beta, the site has a responsive design, new HTML5 audio player, and more.

Rhizome analyzes the importance of “GIFability” of various media, and looks at how GIFs recontextualize and help circulate the original media. This GIFability is important, “because in a sense, no work has been completed until it has been GIFed.”

Artworks and paper archives weren’t all that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Eyebeam, a media non-profit, experienced damage to supposedly stable DVDS, hard-drives, and tapes. Now Eyebeam is contemplating what this means for the future of digital preservation.