In 2005, David Choe painted graffiti-style murals at Facebook’s first office in trade for shares of stock. With the announcement of Facebook’s initial public offering, Choe’s efforts for the company could be worth more than $200 million.

After widespread protests—including website blackouts at Wikipedia, Reddit, and others—Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief author of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, pulled the proposed bill. Many feared the overbroad language would limit free speech online.

LA MOCA’s just-announced YouTube TV endeavor will include a documentary on street artists, a “Cribs”-style look into artists’ studios, and an “art comedy series,” among others, plus aggregated video content from elsewhere.

“Copyright law exists to promote the arts,” write a group of artists opposing the PROTECT-IP act, “but the new penalties in PIPA could be used against the new social media channels we depend on to make a living, and endanger freedom of expression.”

Digital art hub Rhizome joins Wikipedia, Reddit, the Internet Archive, and others in Wednesday’s blackout in protest of the Stop Internet Piracy Act and its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act, which it calls “‘blacklist’ creating legislation.”

Noting that passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act, now being debated in Congress, “would be devastating to the free and open web,” Wikipedia announced Monday that it’ll black out its English-language site Wednesday in protest of the bill.

Mathias Jansson recalls a germinal piece of videogame art: Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup’s Museum Meltdown, a 1996 first-person shooter in which players can blast monsters—and art—at the Arken Museum of Modern Art near Copenhagen.

Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Steve Jobs: These are some of the figures Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro use in their face-substitution experiment, which uses face-tracking technology and color interpolation to create creepy mashup visages.

“Light painting Wifi,” the Better Life Index, and a visualization of how people share New York Times stories are among the year’s best data graphics.