New media and the Arts
From Baruchnewmedia
Welcome to New Media and the Arts. Art plays a big role in our cultural community, and it is involved in all aspects of existing and up-and-coming technologies. Media in general is highly influencing everyone’s lives and new generations are being extremely exposed to this world of high-tech communication. Well, not only is new media being conducted in communication, machinery, medicine and other areas of our lives, but now it is also changing the way we look at art. An old school traditional, panel-colored technique is being rapidly introduced to the new world media. Art installations are set up with impressive usage of light and video projections. This is the new way museums are marketing themselves these days. New media is also guiding the world of art to where digital photography, animations, and 3D designs is taking art in a new light and how its high usage of technology is replacing brush strokes and even our way of interacting with art. This page is allowing you to discuss and contribute different aspects of art scene today, and share topics that either concern or excite you...enjoy!! :)
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Networking
There are many ways to discuss and exchange ideas about art on the web and connect with people who have similar artistic interests. Facebook is filled with fan pages/groups dedicated to art in general or to an art institution or program. Myspace is another site that shows art in a different aspect from many concerned art to be.
deviantART
deviantART is perhaps the largest social networking site for artists. It allows artists to showcase their work, connect with others, and even sell their works through the site. deviantART.
--Awad Sayeed
People tweet about art at increasing rate nowadays and sometimes they are encouraged by institutions to do so. For example: for their 50th anniversary, The Guggenheim organized tours of their Kandinsky exhibition and people from their staff twitted live about it.
#artmesh
Artmesh is a social networking site dedicated to artists, art lovers, curators, and collectors. The site is accessible by invitation only and each member can invite up to 15 others to join. The sites enable its users to: - see through how many people you connect to anyone else on the website - post your works of art - write a biography - rate works of art - recommend connection for artistic collaboration - and much more
References: http://socialmediaanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/deviantart_logo_.jpg
Video
To access videos about the art world became much easier since the emergence of new websites for video sharing. Videos are available for a wide rage of interests in the arts on many different platforms. Users are enabled to share, comment and produce video content about art using the following Web 2.0 platforms.
Showcases
ArtBabble [ahrt-bab-uhl]noun; verb (used without object) -bled, -bling: 1. free flowing conversation, about art, for anyone. 2. a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion - no art degree required.
This emerging video sharing website is specialized in showcases and videos about art and artists from many different sources. The website is open to new partnerships and encourage any art website or institution to post their videos or create a channel. Videos are searchable by series, channels (specific fields of interest like abstract expressionism), artists (from a to z) and partners(institutions and fellow websites).
The website went to live on April 2009. It was conceived and created by professionals from different departments of the Indianapolis Museum of Art with the support of a Ball Brothers Foundation grant.
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Channels
Vimeo and Youtube have channels dedicated to the various aspects of visual arts.Those channels provide content about art techniques, trends in visual arts, openings at galleries and museums, interviews with artists, and much more.
Daily Dose
If you want to keep in touch with the art world on a up-to the minute basis, there are many online services that offer different kinds of subscriptions. Technologies like RSS readers and portable devices enable the user to get information (image, video, audio and text)from different sources in the same place. Moreover, many hard paper magazines offer their content online along with other features specific to Web 2.0. In addition, there are the less dogmatic blogs; where people express their personal voice about art, artists and the art market.
Paper Magazines
The leading art magazines are fully or partially available online and offer different features on their website (newsletter, RSS, sharing, bookmarking, facebook connectivity, blogging etc...). Art professionals can access/store/share the latest news of the art world.
- ARTFORUM
- Art in America
- Flash Art
- Juxtapoz
- The New York Times Art & Design
- The Art Newspaper
- Art News
Online Magazines
Online magazines are not available anywhere else than on the net. Consequently, they are more focused on last-minute events, trends and less mainstream content. Usually, those websites are using much more the Web 2.0 technologies (they all provide RSS, photo albums, facebook, twitter).
Scene 360 is an magazine about trends in arts and film.
Flavorpill is magazine about cultural and artistic events. Their newsletter features all the exhibitions and artistic events in NYC (other cities are also covered).
Blogs
To be informed with past, current and upcoming events, and to read other people's thoughts and visions you can visit many of the blog spots that are available online.
Artists
Many contemporary artists have turned towards the media revolution as a source of inspiration. Some of them criticize the limits of new media and its potential dangers for our society. Others, have used new media technologies to support their vision or their concept, sometimes conveying ideas that have nothing to do with technology. Either embraced or refused, it is clear that New Media has found its place in the artistic production these past 10 years.
Online Museums
Museums start to fill the gap between their old media way of functioning to a new media way of connecting with the public. Many of the art museums of the globe have started to use Web 2.0 technologies to make museums a more personal experience.
Interactive websites
Public relations department and educational departments at museums strive to use new media in order to bring more people to the museum website. The final purpose being to bring more people to the physical museum, to enhance research and education in the visual arts and finally to raise more awareness about the institution.
The Museum of Modern Art launched its interactive website in march 2009. The site enables users to browse the collection and make their own collection from the pieces that MoMA owns. Many other features where added (e.g. the research resources, the multimedia channel and an online community page where users can connect with MoMA through diverse new media sites .
Podcasts and audio tours
Museums offer podcasts (of lectures, interviews, commentary from the staff etc...) and audio tours on their website.
Education
Resources and Master programs in New Media and Visual Arts.
Copyright
Celebrity
New media gave artists new ways to reach celebrity. What is famous online is not necessarily so famous in the real world. Artistic projects using video, still images or interactive softwares can reach a wider public online.
Noah K.
Noah Kalina was an anonymous photographer before he posted his video on youtube. His project consists in taking a picture of himself everyday since 2000. He is continuing his project as of today and his website is weekly updated.
