Art of Social Media

Social Writing & The World of Twitter Fiction

Social media is contributing to a more social experience of reading and writing fiction with writers and readers becoming more actively aware of each other. It is also affording artists with a space to experiment with the expression of their work across multiple modalities. More specifically, Twitter and events like the Twitter Fiction Festival is an “outlet” for literary producers’ creativity and the urge to experiment with different forms of fictions writing.

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Archived in: Art of Social Media, Social Storytelling

Playing The Cello With My Mind

What are the artistic and educational implications of technology that reads your brain activity and displays it in graphical terms? How could it benefit our understanding of the creative process? It’s called OpenBCI, and it’s “Arduino-powered BCI that allows anyone with a laptop to access their brainwaves.” We imagine it could lead to a world where musicians, athletes, or anyone of great skill can automatically “turn on” “being in the zone.” It being open source is its key to it being, potentially, anything. Are we ready?

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Archived in: Art of Social Media, Social Design

Bring Backstage Onstage with Social Media

Bringing backstage onstage with social media is one way to help share learning about artists, their ways of working, and their artwork. This approach, however, requires much unlearning of the use of social media as a marketing channel in order to learn how to participate in social, creative, and artistic ways in network social spaces.

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Archived in: Art of Social Media, Social Design