Yes, I heard it had closed because of infighting. However, if inhabitants of these weird protected bubbles avoid infighting they can expect to go on receiving ACE funds.
Nice article. What do you think of Instagram? I was asked by a NY gallery to sign up, probably wanting to see if I could get followers. They like my work but are a bit skittish about the content, I would imagine.
I do not like social media and don't use any of it. I don't like the idea that an;yone in the connected biomass can attack, and I think they will. I don't like the faux "likes" that are maybe bots or people trying to sell me something I don't want.
Isn't Instagram kind of depressing too? Or am I a prig?
IG is a bit of a trap, I have heard. It requires regular content and you need to tend it like a garden. You end up chasing engagement and getting further away from what you care about and what you wanted to originally do. Well, so I am told. I don't use it myself and I wouldn't say not to, just to be cautious.
I just read today that IG, for the past few months, offer "similar products," some kind of AI generated box that the visitor can then jump to. Sort of like Amazon.
Yeah. You are the product that is being marketed and they are making money from the links. I can't see what a maker gets out of it, especially at a low level.
I asked ChatGPT: Have there been living but unknown artists who used Instagram and then became successful, rising from obscurity? Have any managed to have an art gallery subsequently sell their work, or be reviewed in art trade sites like artnet.com?
and it produced a long list of (women) artists that are Tik-Tok oriented – women's body art mostly; and non-white "political" stuff that could be featured at artnet.com or any mainstream media outlet.
It gave me much fewer names, all women, with Anna Weyant heading the list. Two were dealing with the female body, one made kitchen tools and all worked with more craftmanship and intelligence than the artnet.com results.
Ouch! I think that shows there really isn't much of route from IG to mainstream recognition. People would do better by getting together a group and exhibiting in real venues and getting people excited that way. (As my group does.) Virtual tends to stay virtual, it seems.
Great article. The great art of the West emerged from a civilisation that believed beauty pointed beyond itself to truth. When art is interpreted primarily through the lens of power and transgression, art stops revealing truth and becomes commentary on power.
I think the problem is, at least in the US, that those who don’t hate their own history and culture think of art as decoration or entertainment. They are incapable of thinking in terms of images, gestures and sounds in time.
Their brains are hard-wired this way. It seems to have began in the 18th-19th century. You had Romanticism and neoClassicism. Then, something new arose: Realism, neither Romantic nor Classic. Somehow, around the end of the 19th century this split off into Modernism. But, the engrained conservative mind remained locked in a kind of fact-oriented, nail-it-down mindset. Like I said, it could even be genetic.
So, my prognosis is, there’s no hope. [Sorry.] Not unless there’s another genetic mutation. Maybe brought about by the internet and AI. Which could take many generations.
I wrote before (in some reviews) that we are badly suited to understanding and reviving old forms (languages, symbolism) because we have been wired by our eras. Not an original observation, I'm afraid. If we are looking to art as political activism or purely point-driven production we are bound to lose the mystery and magic.
You always get me thinking about these things, Alex! Thanks, as always.
" They haven’t walked into a room where every window and door is maliciously, sadistically bricked up."
Good to see I am not the only one that notices this. It is slowly turning after 11 years. Every prod on those doors and windows were reacted to in extremism. Thank you for the lovely article! :)
Glasgow's CCA recently closed for good. An example of it's monthly classes was the Rebel Tango: Anti-capitalist,feminist,queen. 😄
Yes, I heard it had closed because of infighting. However, if inhabitants of these weird protected bubbles avoid infighting they can expect to go on receiving ACE funds.
The Scottish Charity Regulator are investigating its 'financial governance ' I've read.
Curious to see if they make a comment on this. Charity Commission in England refused to look into the ICA when I presented evidence.
Nice article. What do you think of Instagram? I was asked by a NY gallery to sign up, probably wanting to see if I could get followers. They like my work but are a bit skittish about the content, I would imagine.
I do not like social media and don't use any of it. I don't like the idea that an;yone in the connected biomass can attack, and I think they will. I don't like the faux "likes" that are maybe bots or people trying to sell me something I don't want.
Isn't Instagram kind of depressing too? Or am I a prig?
IG is a bit of a trap, I have heard. It requires regular content and you need to tend it like a garden. You end up chasing engagement and getting further away from what you care about and what you wanted to originally do. Well, so I am told. I don't use it myself and I wouldn't say not to, just to be cautious.
I just read today that IG, for the past few months, offer "similar products," some kind of AI generated box that the visitor can then jump to. Sort of like Amazon.
Yeah. You are the product that is being marketed and they are making money from the links. I can't see what a maker gets out of it, especially at a low level.
I asked ChatGPT: Have there been living but unknown artists who used Instagram and then became successful, rising from obscurity? Have any managed to have an art gallery subsequently sell their work, or be reviewed in art trade sites like artnet.com?
and it produced a long list of (women) artists that are Tik-Tok oriented – women's body art mostly; and non-white "political" stuff that could be featured at artnet.com or any mainstream media outlet.
And I exited ChatGPT and reentered with the same questions but substituted artnet.com with alexanderadamsart.substack.com.
It gave me much fewer names, all women, with Anna Weyant heading the list. Two were dealing with the female body, one made kitchen tools and all worked with more craftmanship and intelligence than the artnet.com results.
So, there's that.
Ouch! I think that shows there really isn't much of route from IG to mainstream recognition. People would do better by getting together a group and exhibiting in real venues and getting people excited that way. (As my group does.) Virtual tends to stay virtual, it seems.
Great article. The great art of the West emerged from a civilisation that believed beauty pointed beyond itself to truth. When art is interpreted primarily through the lens of power and transgression, art stops revealing truth and becomes commentary on power.
I think the problem is, at least in the US, that those who don’t hate their own history and culture think of art as decoration or entertainment. They are incapable of thinking in terms of images, gestures and sounds in time.
Their brains are hard-wired this way. It seems to have began in the 18th-19th century. You had Romanticism and neoClassicism. Then, something new arose: Realism, neither Romantic nor Classic. Somehow, around the end of the 19th century this split off into Modernism. But, the engrained conservative mind remained locked in a kind of fact-oriented, nail-it-down mindset. Like I said, it could even be genetic.
So, my prognosis is, there’s no hope. [Sorry.] Not unless there’s another genetic mutation. Maybe brought about by the internet and AI. Which could take many generations.
Great essay, though, and I hope I'm wrong.
I wrote before (in some reviews) that we are badly suited to understanding and reviving old forms (languages, symbolism) because we have been wired by our eras. Not an original observation, I'm afraid. If we are looking to art as political activism or purely point-driven production we are bound to lose the mystery and magic.
You always get me thinking about these things, Alex! Thanks, as always.
" They haven’t walked into a room where every window and door is maliciously, sadistically bricked up."
Good to see I am not the only one that notices this. It is slowly turning after 11 years. Every prod on those doors and windows were reacted to in extremism. Thank you for the lovely article! :)
Yes, I think we're making slow progress. It makes me sorry for our colleagues who didn't live long enough to see the changes arriving.