{"id":694,"date":"2007-05-12T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/05\/12\/artwork-or-network\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:42:09","slug":"artwork-or-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/artwork-or-network\/","title":{"rendered":"artwork or network"},"content":{"rendered":"

here’s a pretty cool project: Artwork or Network<\/a><\/p>\n

the Surface Gallery in Nottingham, UK have installed ‘a blank screen’ and ‘a set of rules’ are put in place to establish a social network of artists, creative peoples, or whoever happens to stumble upon the project.<\/p>\n

\"artwork<\/p>\n

Of course this approach is nothing new. All of these grid-pixel spaces are mostly derivative of the Million Dollar Homepage<\/a> website, which netted Alex Tew, well, a million dollars. HOWEVER, rather than advertising and the promise of permanent internet posterity, here you get to see a social network develop live in the gallery (quick, someone hit the refresh button – or F5 on a PC\/Linux box!) – and a quick clickthrough on my end shows people<\/em> using deviantart, blogspot and MySpace (among other sites) to host their content, extending this grid into other networks and showing quite simply how and where artists<\/em> are using the internet to establish their presence.<\/p>\n

I linked to my del.icio.us account<\/a>. It just made sense. There are plenty of links there to keep people busy, rather than pointing them to a page with my bio or some crap like that (not that I condone it when other people do it, just not for me!).<\/p>\n

My mate Karen D’Amico<\/a> sent me the link, now it’s your turn. Leave a comment and I’ll send you an invite.<\/p>\n

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