Comments on: Social Media, Creativity and Promotion http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Wed, 23 May 2012 10:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Boone Gorges http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-111 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:28:08 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=425#comment-111 What a cool topic. I took a graduate course in philosophical aesthetics in which we discussed the idea that artistic merit is fundamentally linked to a particular community or “art world”, such that what it means to be (good) art is simply to be accepted as such by a certain group of individuals. You seem to be suggesting that the audience for art is changing because of social media, and the analog would be that the “art world” that determines the validity of a piece of art might be changing as well.

On a related note, questions of artistic success and merit seem almost allegorical for the academic enterprise in general. What constitutes academic success is not necessarily an internal feature of the academic work itself, but is instead a complex relation between the work and the “academic world”. I wonder if the world of studio art just happens to be a bit further down the road toward accepting the broader digital world as part of the artmaking process than the academic world is to accepting a broad academia-making process. Thus maybe there’s something that 21st-century academics can learn from 21-century studio artists’ attempts to redefine and reshape success in their field.

]]> By: Laura Mandell http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-110 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:42:35 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=425#comment-110 Liz: I just helped Susan Schreibman conduct a workshop at MLA called Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion. We had a wonderfully creative example, a poet’s digital performance art, and the evaluators were completely at sea. Dene Grigar promises that the ELO is formulating guidelines for this. But it strikes me that one problem is simple distrust of our own capacity to recognize art as art: in the absence of traditional kinds of evaluation, what do you do?

]]> By: Liz Murphy Thomas http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-109 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:09:28 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=425#comment-109 Hi Faith, thanks for the comment. Yes I definitely intend this to be broader than just the visual arts to include musical, written and possibly even performing arts. I think music, as you’ve mentioned, is where a lot of interesting things are occurring. Jonathan Coulton is a great example!

]]> By: Amanda Sikarskie http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-108 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:08:19 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=425#comment-108 Social media is not only changing notions of artistic success, but also notions of who is–or can be–considered an artist. Looking forward to your session!

]]> By: Faith Van Horne http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-107 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:29:23 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=425#comment-107 This is especially interesting to me as a writer. I would like to address the musical and written arts in this context. Jonathan Coulton, anyone?

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