the future of blogging by jessica blume

On the 5th of August the New York Times reported that, “Google and Verizon are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.” so perhaps the days of self publishing may be coming to an end.  This two tier system means that rather soon, large publishing houses like will load quickly because they’ll be able to afford the extra charges while small blogs like emerging artists will be slow as smails in comparison.

if you would like to know more you can read this, it could just be internet sparked gossip.

http://mobile.computerworld.com/device/article.php?CALL_URL=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180192/Google_denies_talks_with_Verizon_to_end_Net_neutrality_

 

 

article about artists and the internet. posted by jessica

Taking Stock of Art Making in The Age of “I’m A Child of The Internet”

by PADDY JOHNSON on OCTOBER 8, 2010 · 33 COMMENTS

The Internet Meme Generator, Internet Artist

Nothing discredits artists quicker than adopting mantras that mean absolutely nothing to their practice. A note to young practitioners using “I’ve grown up with the Internet” as an accolade: Don’t do it.

Here’s why:

1. It doesn’t say anything. Just because a two year old can figure out how to use an iphone, doesn’t mean they will grow up with instinctually better or even different knowledge of its functionality. It just means that one generation’s cultural references will be different than another. This has always been the case.
2. It creates meaningless pejoratives. Was your experience of the web in the 90′s more valuable if you were eight or 20? “I’ve grown-up using the internet” implicitly suggests the former even though the polarization itself is bogus.
3. It buys into popular myths about art making. Two sentences that mean the same thing, yet evoke entirely different connotations when used: “I grew up with the internet” AND  ”My childhood experiences deeply influence my work.”

So what are some of the changes in contemporary art making practice that are brought on by the net and worth noting? Here’s what I see:

1. Decreased importance of authorship. Trying an idea out without attaching a name to it is common amongst artists using the web — particularly younger generations. Anon. Tumblr’s,temporary web pages, and even this year’s IMG MGMT essay What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4chan, authored by Anonymous provide good examples. Unauthored work sometimes becomes authored once the project starts gathering steam as was the case with this blog.

2. Increase in collaboration + decreased importance on authorship. File sharing is very easy on the web, which means collaborations happen very easily. Interestingly, on the group image chat site, dump.fm files are shared and manipulated so frequently sometimes authorship is impossible to trace.

3. DIY branding (or increased importance of authorship).  In contrast to the i-don’t-give-a-fuck-about-authorship approach to art making on the web is the self-branding that naturally occurs when distributing digital files and text. Hello twitter art. Hello Nic Rad, William Powhida,MTAA, An Xiao, Cory Arcangel and Man Bartlett.

4. Decreased preciousness of art work. The knowledge that the web is constantly changing actively effects art work — at least that appearing on the web. Many artists — particularly those of a younger generation — have a much more cavalier attitude towards work they do online. Andrew Laumann expressed this thought recently to me in an article I wrote for The L Magazine titled, The Rise of The Online Gallery.

5. Decreased importance of who did what first. Ideas expire more quickly on the web because they are absorbed with greater ease so who did what first means a lot less. Uniqueness of vision is important, originality less so.

from http://www.artfagcity.com

site for artist bloggers

It is not very good but the act that it exists sums up our point

xx jessica

http://www.squidoo.com/blogging-for-artists

 

ok. while i can, here are my two favorite blogs.

Neither of these are traditional blogs, one is a photography blog and the other is people’s secrets on postcards. I love that both the creators of these blogs have become really well known worldwide, through the internet.

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com

http://postsecret.com

I’ll write this in more detail and add some pictures later 😀

-Tammy

more blogs

Oh, while I’ve got the link up, here’s another photography blog that i love, but is completely different to the previous two. It’s much darker.

http://tegan-mays.tumblr.com/page/6

tumblr is  fanatastic website that anyone can use to showcase their work, and create a following.

-kate

insert title here.

http://elysias.tumblr.com/

http://shensim.tumblr.com/

 

These are photography blogs by two girls I went to high school with. It’s funny that as a writer, I actually don’t read other writers blogs; I’m much more interested in photography blogs.

Both of them have a very soft, pretty technique. They use their friends as models,  and have warm lighting.

Through their blogs, they have created a portfolio for their work, and an awareness, which in turn has created followers.

 

-Kate

examples of websites and bloggers for art or curation.

this is an amazing example of a photographer showing all his work… just imagine before the internet, there is no way we would be able to see this archive of photo exhibitions unless we went to America and tracked him down.

See how far one curator has gone using the internet as his main tool: http://lacda.com/digitalartnews.html

This is a great example of a photographer sharing their work:  http://www.mikeryder.co.uk/photo.html Andy

some great pop culture ones include:                                                                            http://www.notcot.org,  http://www ffffound.com, and http://www.hipstr.com

by jessica blume

blogs help artists gain recognition and exposure to other artists and bloggers.

© SATOMI SHIRAI

This image by Satomi Shirai was featured on Jörg M. Colberg’s Conscientious blog in February 2009. Shirai says she was contacted by other photographers and bloggers after the post.

post by jessica blume

the role of blogs for artists and art lovers.

there are so many incredible artists out there that may not have the money to make a website, the experience and networks to have constant exhibitions or the locational difficulty of being away from the loop.

With blogs you can easily upload your work for free for anyone to see and then share this and anything else you want with the rest of the interested world. You also have the opportunity to add links to other artists or bloggers and create a creative network of people helping each other get their blog seen and followed and self promote upcoming things such as shows and other projects you are involved in.

i will be looking into this and adding current friends blogs that i like and exploring their success.        jessica blume

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