Hello everyone,
Sorry for being so blog neglectful, it gets difficult to manage everything during the holidays with finals and students and traveling and family members etc...
But I am, for the most part, back into the swing of things. In less than two weeks I'll be heading to Columbus, OH for THATcamp - otherwise known as The Humanities and Technology Camp.
I just posted on the THATcamp blog the question I hope to discuss which is that of social media, creativity and promotion. Here's what I posted:
Traditional studio art education clearly defines artistic success. Creative efforts are considered validated by achieving gallery representation, receiving critical review and exhibiting artwork in traditional venues such as brick and mortar museums and galleries. But how relevant are these goals for most artists today?
These elusive goals have been challenged fundamentally by social media and the Internet. I wish to discuss how social media can be used by artists to promote and distribute their work as well as the converse shift in power this represents. Social media can provide an alternative to these traditional goals, but can it also replace them? How will we define artistic success is the 21st century?
So what are your takes on this? How does social media weigh-in with regards to traditional quality control? Does social media negate the "gatekeepers" of success?
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