A Fresh Start (up)

I just want to share this great discovery with you. Blogumenta is a projet launched in reaction to big art fairs taking place in Europe (ex: Documenta) and aims at proposing other ways to create an art fair thanks to social networks.

Blogumenta has created a group on Facebook to gather some art pieces and become the first Facebook art fair.

Just an explanation form Robert, the “admin”:

“There are different ways to contribute an artwork:
- upload a photo to the Blogumenta group photo section;
- contribute a text piece by writing on the Wall;
- contribute text in the Discussion area;
- there may be other ways I don’t know about yet, let me know.

Once a critical mass of artwork has been assembled, the “fair” itself will be scheduled as a Facebook event, limited by FB to one month in duration.”

You know that I am very interested in the democratization of art, and this can be an amazing evolution if it works: it will facilitate the access of artists to the mass market, and give access to everyone to great pieces of art during an event.

A lot of initiatives like that are taking place in Second Life, I will comment them for sure later on.

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