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on Thursday, August 19th, J.Baldini said
The internet has been the most amazing development in networking for artists.
We have a plein air organization having our 2nd International 'Paint Out' Sept 10-12, which only a few years ago could never have happened. Artists in different parts of the world will all be painting simultaneously on the same 3 days!
on Thursday, August 19th, Luana Schneider said
I am happy to see so many people able to go forward with their work. I am a baby at this and have yet to truly find a way to display my art to anyone. I have to admit that I hate being a salesperson, although in everything we do we all are to some degree. I guess I should say I hate cold calling. I love the idea of the internet as a sales tool because of the ability to "hide" if someone doesn't like your work. But I also secretly relish whenever someone praises me, hard to do both.
on Wednesday, August 11th, Hans-Georg Türstig said
Thank you, Nita, for sharing your art and your thoughts. And I agree with you that the internet has a liberating effect on art and artists and helps build community. This new way also gives us a chance to break with old habits and patterns. When Karen Wassmer e.g. writes, she is worried about copyright and all that, well, why not go beyond that too? I can only tell all those potential thieves: For any idea or artwork you "steal", I will create 108 new ones. Nobody can steal as much as we can create! And I just feel sorry for anybody who makes money with other people's work which is usually called exploitation and the world is full of it - from open slavery to hidden sweat shops to children in India and elsewhere who work 12 hours a day and more for pennies so that others (and we all know who these “others” are) can make a bigger profit. We can't change others but we don't need to come down to their level. At the same time we don’t need to feel superior, we can just feel great the way we are, not just in comparison to others. As U.G. Krishnamurti (and that's not the "famous" Krishnamurti) wrote in his book “The Mystique of Enlightenment”: “My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.”
on Wednesday, August 11th, Karen Wassmer said
The only thing I am worried about from this great artistic cyberworld is that if you are an auntreprenure and create new ideas and stuff you had better have your © and ™ in order. It is sad to say that people will steal your ideas even your art and use it for themselves to make money. But yes, we are a moving artistic millenium!
on Tuesday, August 10th, Ingrid Kamerbeek said
POWER TO THE PEOPLE/ ARTISTS! Thank you Nita for your great thoughts. When Pygoya and myself founded the "Webism Group of Worldwide Artists" back in November 2003 after our "1st Pygoyan European Art Tour" (which already began in Angouleme/France in August 2003 and was organized by Webist Bernard Dumaine) together with the "1st Hour Webists" we were sure to bring together active artists around the globe working together for art, love and peace. Email and the Internet are powerful tools. Our Webism movement is high energy with the common positive power of now 61 Webism artists from around the globe working together on- and offline without any borders.
on Tuesday, August 10th, Pygoya said
Imagine living on a rock in the middle of the ocean where the only way to survive as an artist is to make stuff for tourists. Contemplating major art centers like Manhattan, I felt like I was serving a life sentence without parole on Alcatraz. I still live in Hawaii but in 1997, with the launch of lastplace.com, my art was freed to fly abroad like a seagull. A sense of artistic confinement has ended, so I am now content to physically roost in "paradise." I am proud to play my small part, as the founder of Webism, in assisting other creative souls liberate their vision from isolation by entering into the communal light of global aesthetic enlightenment.
on Tuesday, August 10th, Vijaybhai said
Nita has expressed so well what I as webism group member and an artists on internet web-space feel. I am a newcomer digital artist from India not known much. In one hosted free placement of just 8 of my digital works received as many 2800 viewings in one year! Only on internet can a digital artist get such exposurre?
I have my website now and I have 12 galleries with my my digital art work on display permanently. I am getting visitors from all over the world. This is the magic of cyber space.
on Monday, August 9th, Mariano Petit said
Yes, it is amazing how art can be appreciated through the web. I just created my own digital art museum and the feedback has been incredible, artists are willing to participate and show their talent to the rest of the world. Personally, this web site for artists has been one of the best experiences in my life and I feel I'm doing something to promote human expression.bye bye "middle man".
on Monday, August 9th, Jorge Gurmandí said
I´ve spent my life waiting for the moment of something like internet. Now that it exists and I have it in my computer my works are in the world and are included in exhibitions, and I get information from other artists because as you say "art can say a lot" and it's wonderful when you don't have to wait for the "middle man" to aprove that.
If the Internet has done anything, it has freed creativity from the shackles of compartmentalisation. Before Internet, artists needed a mediator, a publisher, a gallery, a curator...in other words, a middleman to bring their
We are not condemned to feel out of place in our school, workplace, home...we can link hands with like-minded people from all over the
