For this week’s response, we were asked to read an article by Caitlin Jones that talks all about how the studio is starting to change forms from your standard, typical studio that focuses in on one environment, to one that is constantly dynamic. This has become more and more possible with the power of laptops and their ability to create virtually a mobile art studio. I thought this was a very interesting and relevant read with the direction that art has recently been taking especially with online sharing sites like YouTube where creators can share their own life stories and the environment that they live in. Everything can be shared and can be produced in different ways.
I found the whole discussion about the surf clubs, like Nasty Nets and Spirit Surfers, very interesting. These were the first real places where people of any art ability could post their work and it produced some very interesting results. If you really think about it, these sites were pioneers and paved the way for bigger “independent artist” sites like Deviantart and Tumblr. One interesting thing I noted though was that sometimes, when I would click on an image, videos would download automatically without my control. I didn’t open them because viruses, but just thought it was interesting.
