Social Arts
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More and more category specific community sites bubble to the surface since the arts have embraced Web 2.0. There is Your Gallery from Saatchi, with the student spin-off Stuart. Both are designed for new artists to exhibit their work.
ExhibitFiles, “a community site for exhibit designers and developers,” launched in April. Built for museum professionals, it now has 225 members.
Re!ease01 is for both the art professional and the artist. The site’s design and architecture are a bit messy. Although it was launched in the summer of 2006, it still has the appearance of the perpetual beta. Then again, whoever said MySpace looked attractive?
The Museums and the Web conference also had an interactive platform, where participants could blog and discuss about the lectures and workshops. This was quite a nice tool to use, whilst listening to the speakers. This is seen more and more, not just on these conferences but also in universities: a real time online discussion that is fed back into the room.
The last one in this category is artCloud. This is a not yet active network of self-proclaimed “veterans of the art world”, in collaboration with The Art Newspaper. It promises to launch in days.
What is next? A social network for restorators? Archaeologists? Art dealers? Share your examples please.
Related posts: Come join the Open Museum Network at PICNIC ‘08 // Dutch Webby Awards nominate MuseumLab // The Museum as Hub launches website //
juni 18th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
What happened to the screen? On my Mac everything looks overstretched.. Hopefuly people can still read this blog!
juni 19th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Nothing happened to the screen on this side of the web - on Firefox and Internet Explorer on PC and MAC. Let’s sleep over it and see what happens.
juli 1st, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Having founded artCloud, the pressure put on the notion of veterans is simply that there is an enormous amount of noise but there aren’t a lot of people who have actually lived for decades in the art world as contributors to it (as artists, curators, editors, museum directors) who are actually involved in doing these projects on the Web. I’ve taken pains to involve these people in the project so that from the first artCloud really will create a useful community for people in the art world. That shouldn’t seem too outlandish.