Sure, I'd agree with that, but keep in mind the discussion started with artists having any web presence at all. :-) While social networks and blogs aren't overly technical, they tend to be used by those who spend more time on-line.
Social sites like Flickr have enormous amounts of groups and pools, so simply placing your work on something like this, or YouTube, or Vimeo, doesn't really it will be seen. It does make it easier to stream and share though. And again, there's no central repository of links to New Zealand digital art, so with the initial example of someone from Austria wanting an overview, it would mean searching, crawling through links pages, and filtering out irrelevant results. Receiving emails or Facebook invites or announcements is a very targeted, effective way to view work. But it's a different, more passive approach than the former proactive example. While a lot of this can be placed at the foot of the artist for not using all avenues, I know of a few artists personally who simply aren't aware of these. As an aside, I'd also say there's certain types of work that are more 'viral' than others. In one specific example, a friend was trying to get his work seen, and was very frustrated by the lack of visitors his site and his work on a video portal was receiving. It'd be nice to encourage a transition from physical > digital, increasing the online presence of this type of work, either individually or through something akin to rhizome.org. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:47 AM, leyton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> it's my experience that people overestimate the value of google page >> ranking while underestimating social networks, blogs, mailing lists, >> IM, >> email and word-of-mouth. >> >> if the work's appreciated by people, the rest will follow. >> > thats also my experience on both points. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
