Social Art and Social Artist
On the panel of “Digital Community” Winners talk I moderated two days ago in Linz, the three speakers, including Iris Wu from 1kg.org, David Sasaki from GlobalVoicesOnline.org and Jeana Frost from PatientsLikeMe.com, all present the beautifulness of their web site and communities. So I call those rewarding winning sites “Social Art“, and of course the people behind them are Social Artists.
So what really Social Art is? Let’s try to define it. Social Art is very dynamic creation by crowds with 6 degree of separations. Someone with creative ideas can start from a small core by building framework to foster a community(for sure nobody there the first minute). However, the core framework can grow organically with open DNA and consistence on Sharism philosophy. The beautifulness, of course, is the big picture of so many mirco-behaviors vibrate in such community. So it can be seen as dynamic social artwork. Just like the big cluster of the clouds from the window of flight, Social Art is always changing to attract everyone of us to fly into it, or zooming in and out of it.
Then we need more social artists to create such core frameworks. Lets hope the rains of social creativities.
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Mindy