{"id":4049,"date":"2021-12-15T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/a-weird-meta-experience-artist-has-metaverse-handle-restored-after-meta-disables-it\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:41:05","slug":"a-weird-meta-experience-artist-has-metaverse-handle-restored-after-meta-disables-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/a-weird-meta-experience-artist-has-metaverse-handle-restored-after-meta-disables-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A weird meta experience\u2019: artist has @metaverse handle restored after Meta disables it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thea-Mai Baumann reflects on making art in the web 3.0 world and digital disappearing acts<\/p>\n<p>Thea-Mai Baumann\u2019s Instagram profile is an eclectic mix of pink-lipped selfies, David Bowie memes, colorful recordings of her hologram artwork, shots of skyscrapers in Shanghai and portraits of friends tinted in Valencia, Amaro and Toaster, all filters from Instagram\u2019s early days.<\/p>\n<p>Baumann\u2019s account, which operates under the handle @metaverse, features 10 years of her life and work. All that became inaccessible to her when she suddenly found herself disabled from her account on 2 November, days after Facebook, which owns Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-meta-metaverse\">changed its umbrella corporate name to Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/15\/weird-meta-experience-artist-metaverse-instagram-restored\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2cf520772f7fa32ab7cc58d2c27b69f28f783c4\/0_186_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b8917725c8b2b3a70d21af279e0027bf\" title=\"\u2018A weird meta experience\u2019: artist has @metaverse handle restored after Meta disables it\" \/>Thea-Mai Baumann reflects on making art in the web 3.0 world and digital disappearing acts<br \/>\nThea-Mai Baumann\u2019s Instagram profile is an eclectic mix of pink-lipped selfies, David Bowie memes, colorful recordings of her hologram artwork, shots of skyscrapers in Shanghai and portraits of friends tinted in Valencia, Amaro and Toaster, all filters from Instagram\u2019s early days.<br \/>\nBaumann\u2019s account, which operates under the handle @metaverse, features 10 years of her life and work. All that became inaccessible to her when she suddenly found herself disabled from her account on 2 November, days after Facebook, which owns Instagram, changed its umbrella corporate name to Meta. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thea-Mai Baumann reflects on making art in the web 3.0 world and digital disappearing acts Thea-Mai Baumann\u2019s Instagram profile is an eclectic mix of pink-lipped selfies, David Bowie memes, colorful recordings of her hologram artwork, shots of skyscrapers in Shanghai and portraits of friends tinted in Valencia, Amaro and Toaster, all filters from Instagram\u2019s early &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/a-weird-meta-experience-artist-has-metaverse-handle-restored-after-meta-disables-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A weird meta experience\u2019: artist has @metaverse handle restored after Meta disables it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}