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Social Media and networking

According to social media, on this day  two years ago, I was ‘off to the AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation consultation for invited artists at Castlefield Gallery‘. Six years ago, I was commissioned to design one of the penguins that were to […]

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all or nothing

‘all or nothing’ was how I was once aptly described by my friend’s mum. It then became the title of my first solo exhibition. Contemplating a title for this blog, it was the first title to spring to mind and, […]

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Rubbish Dialogue

Rubbish Dialogue is a new twitter project facilitated by the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish Research Department. Rubbish Dialogue examines the relationship between rubbish and language through ‘talking rubbish’ on social media platform Twitter. Anyone can participate by tweeting @rubbishdialogue with […]

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The invisible woman

I’m not very good at documenting my work. I realised this when I decided to set up a facebook ‘artist’ page, to use as a tool to separate images of my work from personal posts . Where is my work??? […]

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Crossroads
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#copyrightgreyareas

Masa Kepic helped instigate a-n’s first live Twitter debate, here she gives an overview of the issues raised.

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I.D.
Resource Profile

Sam Firth

Sam Firth is currently working on a year-long video project on a remote Scottish peninsula near her home on Knoydart, an isolated community of just over 100 people. She talks to Andrew Bryant about personal narrative, securing funding and recent media criticism attracted by her current project.

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Untitled
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Digital partners

The social media revolution has had a significant impact on the ways artists work. Here we focus on a selection of projects that artists have developed through online collaboration, sourced via our Twitter and Facebook followings.

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Screen grab from www.welikeartists.com
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More ways to make and save money

The continued economic doldrums and uncertainty in public funding make it more important than ever for artists to find ways to make and save money. So here are some tips – old and new – from the a-n community.

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Worlds in the Making
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Make digital

Artists and designers embracing digital learning, production and distribution.

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Venn of Connectedness, Twitter Followers 270/24.08.11
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Venn of connectedness

Manchester-based artist Jacqueline Wylie is researching ways in which artists use social media.

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We're no longer seeing, but reading
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Artists talking… talking!

Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.

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Jack Hutchinson outside the ISEA conference centre in Istanbul
AIR AIR activities

AIR at ISEA 2011

AIR Communications Officer Jack Hutchinson heads to the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Istanbul to explain AIR’s latest collaborations and how they are impacting on the lives of artists.

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Stronger Together
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Is collaboration different in the visual arts?

Held in June, ‘Stronger together’ was an opportunity to ‘celebrate and question how we work together’ – exploring collaboration in its many forms – and how vital that is to the survival of the arts.

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Sharing knowledge

Charlotte Frost has been researching and writing on digital and new media arts for over ten years. Here, she introduces her next projects as the last in her regular ‘Digital practices’ column for a-n Magazine.

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William Aitchison
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We Blog

Comparing blogging to a ‘collective game of hide and seek,’ H.E. Cocker rethinks the blog as a place where an idea can exist without existing at all and where the future is implied whilst not yet written.

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Social media: Twitter
Resource Guide

Social media: Twitter

For this video guide, Katy Beale and Charlotte Frost discuss micro-blogging with particular reference to Twitter and how it can be used for research, marketing and collaboration, plus a look at how artists are using Twitter in innovative ways that connect with their practice.

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Social media: Blogging
Resource Guide

Social media: Blogging

For this video guide, Chris Unitt of Meshed Media talks to Charlotte Frost about different blog platforms, getting the most from a blog, and some of the creative and innovative blogs around.

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3 Score & 10
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Digital practices

Social media is never out of the headlines, whether we’re talking about privacy issues or how it has allowed niche political groups to reach a wider public.

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The BIG Decision
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Arts funding

In last month’s issue we reported on the online commentaries ensuing from the DCMS’s announcement of the extent to which public subsidy for the arts will be cut. In a bid to grant a voice for practitioners and arts professionals, platforms have been initiated on social sites including Marcus Romer’s (Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre) Artsfunding ning network artsfunding.ning.com. Here we republish excerpts of postings on Artsfunding, plus other timely commentaries related to this line of discussion.

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