Art Social Networking? In review: Art Slant
March 18th, 2009 by eleanor - artist resources blog good things In Review internet
For the past couple of days I have been discovering Art Slant, as it calls itself the “#1 Contemporary Art Network.”
It is actually pretty impressive in its dynamic content building and the ways in which it connects artists, galleries, events, resources, writers, and even art lovers/collectors. Any information that is added by any one person is added into anything or person that it relates to. Example: If you add an event- the event gets added to the artist’s page, the gallery’s page, the curator’s page.
So artists may have a full page of information with their history of shows and images even if they have not even ever gone onto the website.
There are a couple of things that seem to be unfortunate:
-the inability for it to upload your own blog feed into your profile’s blog
-the fact that there seem to be three categories of profiles and there doesn’t seem to be a way to combine the different profiles: profesional profiles, gallery profiles, and resource profiles. The Present Group now has a profile in each category and though they are connected through links, I would have to manually update
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i have not found that this particular ‘net’ promotes art so much as ‘commercial’ endeavors and ‘other’ favorites. bauhaus it ain’t. conceptual art has pretty much shown itself bereft of any bias but the banal (it can really be sophomoric, often moronic, usually repetitive and dull.) seems to clutter the market; difficult to compete in a junkyard. claims ‘high’ standards; not in evidence.
I was wondering if ArtSlant is working out for anybody.
If I read it right it’s just $5 a year but that can add up if I find too many sites that don’t bring results/benefits to me.
I visited Art Slant and was impressed with the website…I think as artists we need to be open minded about all the ways to market our art.
What is wrong with the social networks? I love taking a break from my little world and reading comments from someone elses corner (pictures, videos, blogs, twitters and all).
I say there is room for the serious, sophisticated site, and room for the “lets just have fun making art site!”
Hi Jill,
I agree that we all need to be open minded about the ways in which to market ourselves. From an art organization’s standpoint, I just didn’t see Myspace working for us. But I do think that Art Slant and Twitter seem to be good ways for us to reach out to new audiences. Everyone just has to find the ways that work for them. There is nothing wrong with social networks! I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentiment.