A Fresh Start (up)

I have just made a review on Tech IT Easy of the different types of artistic expressions (creation or presentation) that can be found on Second Life and virtual worlds in general.

To sum up: 
- some artists or galleries just reproduce their exhibition on SL
- some other artists use SL to sell online some of their offline pieces of art thanks to scanning
- some artists use SL as a creative place in itself.

Of course my article details all these types and gives examples, in order to answer a big question: in what measure these initiatives will contribute to dynamize and democratize art?

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.

I am currently starting a thesis on “the democratization of contemporary art” (theme will probably evolve a lot), which is mandatory to graduate from HEC. It is a great theme, highly linked with Internet evolutions.

So I have decided to find and promote on this blog all types of art that are Internet-related.

For this first article of the serie “Pieces of art”, I have found a really cool app giving you a visual reprensentation of your website. So this pictures represents A Fresh Start (up). 

Of course there is an explanation. Here is what the colors stand for:
blue: for links (the A tag),
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags),
green: for the DIV tag,
purple: for images (the IMG tag),
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags),
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags),
black: the HTML tag, the root node,
gray: all other tags.

But what is more amazing is how this type of art, based on the creativity of developer who has probably no “standard” art skills (correct me if I’m wrong), is how rapidly it has spread. More than 2,000 “websites as graphs” are registered on Flickr, you can check it here; some websites’ visual representations are really amazing, I am quite jealous actually!

So should I try to make an interesting blog or just a “beautiful” one ?

If you have other examples of Internet-related art, please let me know and I will definitely write about them!

This blog is going to be launched in September 2007, please come back at this time !

To know the topic of the blog, please read “About this blog and myself”, and add this blog to your feeds to be informed as soon as my adventure in the US get started!

See you soon.