Comments on: Is Anyone Talking About Privacy?

By: valerie

valerie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:25:32 +0000

am eternally grateful to be able to see gallery sites,but I think twitter and facebook are sort of rediculous,except for perhaps announcing a party or event-they are time suckers,mostly.And I look at them when I SHOULD BE PAINTING.

By: valerie

valerie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:25:00 +0000

By: valerie

valerie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:25:00 +0000

By: libby

libby — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:50:14 +0000

honesty, in both the literal day-to-day and overall moral sense, is closely tied to privacy online as bloggers/etc self-edit their output to protect themselves.

it’s impossible to ‘know’ someone’s personality or work online beyond what they choose to share, though their readers and viewers often feel an intimacy that’s as real as an old-fashioned friendship or IRL connection.

narrowing this down to the realm of art-making blogs (for the sake of sanity), there are generally two categories: artists who share their work, and artists who share their work and the process that went into it. i find much more inspiration in the latter, though it’s not for everyone.

By: libby

libby — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:50:00 +0000

honesty, in both the literal day-to-day and overall moral sense, is closely tied to privacy online as bloggers/etc self-edit their output to protect themselves.

By: W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S.

W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:18:40 +0000

Its funny how Facebook and Twitter are supposed to bring people together, but I think they actually make it easier to ignore people. There’s something very ‘catholic’ and ritualized about online networking. Something seedy and pathological about it too. A generation of people constantly refreshing our browsers, too afraid to actually make eye contact. What do I know? I was a misanthrope and antisocial before all this social networking started, so what’s my excuse?

By: W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S.

W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:18:00 +0000

By: W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S.

W.W.I.I.G.G.S.S. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:18:00 +0000

By: GinaB

GinaB — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:46:56 +0000

I see originality and interactivity as two sides of a coin. Interactivity is not just about the social sphere and facebook, the internet allows artists to see what artists are showing all over the world, via gallery websites. The more awareness there is about what everyone else is doing, the more that rubs off, or is co-opted and the less ‘originality’ there is. I think it was different 10+ years ago, because you knew far less about what people were up to–only the people in your community or the shows/books you had access to You could kind of develop your work in more of a vacuum…

By: GinaB

GinaB — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:46:00 +0000