Art Blogs
rebecca moore
EDUC 5413
The following is a graduate paper for EDUC 5413 Teaching With
Technology. This paper is in the form of a word document
designed to be viewed on the Internet. It is written in the spirit of
the art blogs that it is researching. Consider the red and green
underling part of the design; all text in blue is an active link.
The Internet is quickly becoming a key source of
information on contemporary artwork. The trouble with the
Internet is it is so vast, with a multitude of artworks and artists
out there. During this look into art blogs, I found the best way
to find them was to use the website Art.Net Links and then
follow links to other artists.
http://www.art.net/links/artref/blogs.html
http://blog.absolutearts.com/blogs/
Artist’s blogs,
portfolios -- see
art, get prices,
exhibitions
information, links,
artist statements
Thursday, November 15th
Artists, Toot Your Horn – Tout de suite by Barney
Davey
Think about it. Most professionals would cringe at the thought of
having to rehash in public, or in the media about their job performance.
The vast majority of us work quietly at our jobs with only a few
colleagues and even fewer managers having the foggiest notion of what
we do, or how well we do it. Imagine if the output or result of your
work was to be studied and commented upon by a range of people from
those in the profession who might be able to help your career to those
with no idea of what you do or how you do it, but who freely comment
on whether they like it or not and why. And, that you have to grin and
bear it as you hear sometimes dreadful uneducated comments about
your work. On the bright side, there are those priceless compliments
that balance the negative comments.
Barney Davey on 11.15.07 @ 01:39 PM EST
ARTIST'S WEB BLOGS
BY DANIEL GRANT
The readers of a particular blog are often like-minded
individuals looking to discuss subjects of common
interest. However, in the case of an artist's blog, there
may be many others-such as critics, collectors, and
curators-who are more interested in learning about the
artist's process and viewing his or her work than
participating in conversation.
ARTIST’S WEB BLOGS
SOURCE: American Artist 71 Jl/Ag 2007
PAGE(S): 76-7
GalleryDriver is your resource for Galleries, Artists and
the best Art Blogs on the web.
I found this image on the GalleryDriver site for Camille Rose
Garcia.
http://gallerydriver.com/?method=Art.ArtDetail&ArtistID=CB71B174-3048-2BC2F62C130A44A1E018&GalleryID=82C33C59-3048-28EB92DB386C8C733405&ArtID=2DA286C6-115B-5562-AAA929FD7A6FC982
Architeuthis Land Marooned,
Camille Rose Garcia
This one for Chris Mars
http://gallerydriver.com/?metho
d=Art.Art
Detail&ArtistID=BA53105E3048-28EB92D47A5AA61FB07F&Gallery
ID=82C33C59-3048-28EB92DB386C8C733405&ArtID=6
767CC2E-19DB-5802E084517FA3C39CCA
Bliss,
Chris Mars
I found frequent references to Jafabrit’s Blog. Here it is:
http://jafabrit.blogspot.com/
There are not just interesting images on the blogs. Here a blogger
discusses his blogging process.
http://donkasprzak.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/the-rise-of-art-blogs/
donkasprzak Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and
Education
“Blogs have matured to capture the power of RSS feeds, tagging and
podcasting. These are very important for Artists to understand and use
in their everyday communication. More and more photo blogs,
vlogs(video blogs) and podcasts are arriving day by day on the
internet.”
“Your blog needs to be “circulated” to gain more exposure with smart
tools like Technorati, Del.icio.us, NetNewWire and Feedburner helping
your voice be heard by more people searching for Art.”
Best place to find artist’s who blog is to fine one with a list on the
side of their blog such as the case with Anna l. Conti’s Working
Artist’s Journal blog. Anna has most of her work on a website called
Big Crow.com.
http://www.bigcrow.com/anna/index.html
She has a link to her blog and uses them in tandem.
http://workingartistsjournal.blogspot.com/
Yes, her names are all linked.
More on the blogging process from another artist.
http://dangerouschunky.com/notebook/
Where will your blog be in three to five years?
What’s the purpose of your blog?
Its a mouthpiece for me to talk about my experiences viewing visual art,
and opinions regarding mainly contemporary art. I hopefully add a little
knowledge to the world about what is going on in Seattle as a viable art
community. As someone who spent most of their education dollars
going to art school, I am also using it as a forum to question how does
some one continue on as an artist, and the what does that reality really
contain.
Where will your blog be in three to five years?
“Who knows, I can’t seem to give it up, although I have tried a few
times. I love what Tyler Green said about MAN, that he thinks of it like
his dog. I too have packed up and taken my blog with me all over.”
Chris Ashley uses HTML to make colored tables that are rendered
as images by a web browser. He calls these "drawings," which he
has made and posted daily on his blog.
http://chrisashley.net/weblog/
If you can’t make it good make it big…
some arty (or not so) chit chat by John Casey
http://bunnywax.wordpress.com/
Veggie show etchings art by another artist on John Casey’s
blog. Artists show other’s work as well as their own.
Crossings: eJournal of Art and Technology
Volume 1, Issue 1
ISSN 1649-0460
June 2001
Keeping Track of Cultural Functions and Practices in the Digital World:
How Old is the New?
Ed S. Tan
http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/1.1/Tan/
The Internet likewise acts as a medium for transferring art and
culture on the one hand, and as a system for creating, performing
and expressing art and culture on the other. The latter function
involves a metamorphosis of traditional forms into something that
we have various tentative names for, such as ‘digital art,’ ‘new
media culture’ or ‘e-culture.’ …makes one wonder whether there
would be ways to keep track of them either for their own sake or
in the interest of historical and theoretical research.
issue #28
04.23.00
WebWalker DAILY 02_11_00-04_30_00
from steve dietz
gallery 9, walker art center, the internet, and digital culture
ART ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
Why Have There Been No Great Net Artists?
Steve Dietz
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/5/B473851A45B7748A6161.htm
An interesting read about the nature of art on the net.
The Blogger Show
The Blogger Show is a combination of traditional artwork viewed on
the Internet of a four gallery art show. However, it is more. It is a
list of the bloggers and their blogs. The blogs are works of art just
as the images on the website are artwork. These bloggers are not
just creating digital diaries, they are creating a whole new genre.
The Blogger ShowIn November, Digging Pitt (Pittsburgh PA) began a
joint effort with Agni Gallery (New York, NY) and Panza Gallery
(Millvale, PA) to present The Blogger Show. The exhibits showcase the
work of over thirty artists whose common interest is in clarifying
artistic discourse through their blogs. All of the exhibits will take place
between November 3, 2007 and January 12, 2008. Preview the exhibits
online at Fiji Island Mermaid Press, courtesy of Marc Snyder.
http://www.fimp.net/bloggershow.html
Blogger Show website one can link to images and to the artist’s
blogs. Some of the best blogs are from: Any Wilson where she
writes in her About Me on the side of the blog:
“This is a page for my weird experiments. Thank you
for taking a look around. If you want to find me, you
can email me at amywilson@gmail.com.
My "real" website can be found at amy-wilson.com.”
http://amywilson.wordpress.com/
Another interesting blogger from the Blogger Show is David Pohl at
http://findthetimetorhyme.blogspot.com/
He incorporates images and art videos with an east Indian theme on
his blog. His travels with the Buddha head are in many of his still
images as well as his YouTube videos.
Another artist who caught my eye on the Blogger Show had this to
say about herself and her blog:
About Me
Joanne Mattera
I’m a painter with geometric inclinations, a reductive esthetic, and
a material sensibility; I call my work "lush minimalism." I've been
at it for a while. Blogging satisfies the left-brain itch to bring
words into my practice while letting the painting speak for itself.
http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/
She like many of the other art bloggers out there show their
process such as crating their art in boxes, but also show other
artist’s work in recently visited exhibitions. These artists are
forming a community through the Internet. They not only
promote themselves, they are often active in promoting the
work of others.
http://softsoftpink.blogspot.com/ is a site linked from the Blogger
Show that incorporates images with collaborative poetry. As it says
on the side:
|soft soft pink| is a digital non-space dedicated to facilitating
experimental collaborations among writers, artists, musicians, and other
colorful human beings. It is my goal to create an evolving binary poetry
collective that employs additive group writing. Each session will begin
with a stimulus (an image, a word, a sentence, a sound, etc.). From that
point, the work will mutate as collaborators add to the piece.
Art Blogs are coming of age on the Internet. They are more
than blogs; they have become artworks in their own right.
They are a place for artists to connect with each other, show
their work, show others work, and just plain discuss the nature
of being an artist. They are anything the artist wishes to make
of them.
As a finish to this document, I thought I would end
with a shot of my
own start at blogging.
Here it is.
http://dismagartist.blogspot.com/
In the future, I think will be working on a separate website for
the artwork and leave the blog for the rest of it.