View source for Brad Troemel & Others – Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook

Transmission is more important than creation. - jl

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Summarized: <i>Through reality television celebrities don't have to play a role in a sitcom anymore: they themselves became the characters. In the same way, artists spend less time making art and more time displaying their lifestyle as an artist through Facebook. "The affect of Facebook may be why so few artists online actually make much art–because they arenʼt being rewarded for anything so much as the performance of their own personal brand online."</i>

So do these 'new' ways of communication actually influence the reasons to make art? Do we create art just to gather likes on Facebook?
- Jasper


While reading the text I could not stop thinking of this topic on a broader scale. I had a constant feeling that behind this article there was a media-news-event such a scandal and the article is a respond to it.
From a broader view I don't see any radical difference between the artists productivity comparing to any other profession on working on any other field effected by the 'F' social site.
More than a guess I know there must be companies that simply denies to their employee to reach facebook.com
Simply because everybody enjoys sharing and voyering their own chosen friends virtual life.
That must be the key of the success of Facebook.
- Manó


Does an artist demystify him/herself and loose his/her "aura" by revealing his/her private life on social networks? - Petra

Is there an important difference between commercial art versus traditional art? - Dennis

Interesting to note how the precedent has switched: create a market/network then an artwork to fit it, rather than create the artwork and try to find a market for it. Also important to note feedback about the article - many disagreed with the generalisations and stated that they did not identify with this type of artmaking. 

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Ryder Ripps ·  Top Commenter · New School<br/>
dear artists using facebook, u are not special, there are 800 million other people who are also using facebook to share things and talk to people, fucking get over it.<br/>
Reply · 18 ·  · February 23 at 11:22pm" -D>a>V>e>!<br/>


While the "artwork" becomes the "network", does that mean a new type of a viewer? Do the viewer's expectation & attention change accordingly? - Demet