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Presentation 4:deviantART.com
Group 5
deviantART.com
deviantART.com offers a free membership The chance to create a professional portfolio Gain feedback from other artists and people
interested in art with the deviantART critique
deviantART.com is a digital activity involving playbour
Involving fun work, but maintaining ground rules
#photographyunlimited is a site specifically for
people to share work
Participants are able to create their own profile
Ways in which participants are able to engage: Commenting on other people’s work Journals Favouiting work
Engagement
You can also join groups created by the
participants
For example; #catfans
In this particular group there are contests participants are able to take part in
Groups
Most members seem to be female
Made up of: artists, art enthusiasts and photographers
Participants
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Subjective photography focuses on the
important of self-expression
Otto Steiner, suggested that it is ‘humanized and individualized photography, whose purpose is to capture from the individual object a picture compounding to its nature’
Subjectives
They want to keep a blog of moments
captured
They want to show off their best pictures
They want to securely share photos
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We can argue that Certeau’s concept on the
use of strategies and tactics are used within digital agencies, such as deviantART.com and #photographyunlimited
Bourdieu and Taste – ‘taste is socially constructed’
Marx – ‘playbour as a false consciousness’
Theory
It can be argued the deviantART.com as a whole is
a business Offers free resources, but has it’s way to make
money
Types of agency
Conceptual photography is one of a kind
photography
In modern society, ‘conceptual photography’ is used to describe the genre
How do they conceptualise their practice?
#photographyunlimited members can post
photos without gaining profit
They want to gain recognition, characterizing a gift economy
A picture shared is considered a gift
Sharing their passion with their work and creates a relationship
What is the socio-cultural context?
The participants have the possibility to add
post descriptions to their art
Group welcoming and description
Members able to express their opinion about group art and exchange details
What types of discourses are enacted?