Tag Archives: Social
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
On Virtual Worlds: An Interview with Filmmaker Victor Pineiro, Part 2
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
On Virtual Worlds: An Interview with Filmmaker Victor Pineiro, Part 2
Cao Fei. Production still © Art21, Inc. 2009. Online platforms have always been social environments. “Web 2.0” was not the birth of the social Web. Rather, it marked a point …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
On Virtual Worlds: An Interview with Filmmaker Victor Pineiro, Part 1
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
On Virtual Worlds: An Interview with Filmmaker Victor Pineiro, Part 1
Cao Fei. Production still © Art21, Inc. 2009. Admittedly, before beginning production research for our Season 5 segment on artist Cao Fei, I had very minimal experience with the virtual …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
@Platea: Art in the Web 2.0 Ethos
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
@Platea: Art in the Web 2.0 Ethos
Social technologies have been around for decades, but mainstream use of social media platforms has grown exponentially only over recent years. This column explores uses of social media platforms relevant …
Flash Points
Free & Clear: Exhibition and the Free Store
Flash Points
Free & Clear: Exhibition and the Free Store
Is free sometimes the best value for art? Well, it certainly can be when artists and curators turn an inquisitive and critically-engaged eye towards the nature of exchange, regeneration, and …
Flash Points
What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator
Flash Points
What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator
I am an arts administrator, which is arguably the second invisible position in line behind the artist. The administrator’s cultural discount is not only applied when independently presenting an exhibition …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Plinth of Thieves
Letter from London
Letter from London: Plinth of Thieves
Good news! We’re living in “a golden age of public art,” characterized by “a change in art’s very nature, from an aesthetic, spiritual and intellectual function to a principally social …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Notes on a workshop (Part 1)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Notes on a workshop (Part 1)
I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have …
