THOUGHTS ON ART, BUSINESS AND THE INTERNET

"Art is a business"  an article in the Guardian states in an interview with the artist Amanda Palmer. 

So in order to run a successful business I feel I need to approach my art work in the same way I helped those in creative industries when I work for University of London onLondon Fusion and one aspect of engagement is by the use of social media.

My favourite researcher and writer on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies is Clay Shirkey, Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). (I have two of his books signed by him I may add.) His writings are insightful and his delivery easy to follow.

Here Clay Shirkey at TED is talking about how...

"The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens."

Worth watching :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udTaYilnwU

 

Competitions Entered- Jerwood Drawing Prize

What is it? Significant drawing prize! 3,500 plus entries for UK residents. Drawing did I mention that?

Oh my, go look! -> http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/projects/jerwood-drawing-prize-2016/
who has won in the past? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerwood_Drawing_Prize lists them all since 2001
Why I think my work qualifies? Well I am thinking about submitting FadedGlory which is not a traditional drawing but if the piece on the right can get selected then why not FadedGlory?

Still got to solve the Framing issue! More on that in another post

Also to mention Person I connected with on Twitter
 

Project: Faded Glory

I have been working on a new piece that is at the moment called FadedGlory. It is an American flag that has been distressed through a technique called Devoré which I have mentioned in an earlier post.

I have been looking for some way of representing the feeling that American has been damaged or lessened because of the interference of the Russians in the American Election process.

My initial experiments focused on how much I should devour the material and how to construct the image in such a way that the fabric still held together despite the removal of significant portions of it.

After several days of playing around with design files and leaving the chemicals on for various periods I came up with a balance that gave an ephemeral and almost ghostly feel to the fabric.

Now I just have to work out how I want to display it. Hanging? Framed? Stretched?

#DicktatorDon: Video

This is a video I shot and uploaded myself just to get the ball rolling as I need some contents.