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The only thing I can read in this article is "Moooom, flow of money bypassing my pockets".
I would also argue, though, that an honest appreciative and humanistic approach to art and its place in our lives is to the NYC art scene as a loving physical relationship is to porn and hookers and this story seemed more concerned with the "scene" than actual art itself.
I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought. Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at intimate, real life one-hour events (we call them Salons, like one by Gertrude Stein).
We have help 7 Salons so far with exciting artists and will do at least one every week in the next few months. You can read more about us here: www.gertrude.co
Kenneth Schlenker
But why should tech people collect art? If I have few millions dollars to spare I will throw them at Tim Schaffer to make Psychonauts 2 ... games can use maecenates as well. And they are much closer to the heart and mind of the tech community. The only thing I can read in this article is "Moooom, flow of money bypassing my pockets".
I was interviewed for this article, it looks like my comments were used well and relatively in context. That being said I definitely don't fit into the tech + art audience that was being defined in this article. It seems to be implied that there is a large amount of naïveté regarding art amongst techies, which is very true for the most part, and they're just looking to burn their piles of tech money on something pret…
I loved this article, especially “I want to meet the artists and hear their stories about why they make what they make. I don’t want to go to the parties.”
I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought. Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at intimate, real life one-hour events (we call them Salons, like one by Gertrude Stein).
It would be cool to meet, we are in Brooklyn too! Kenneth (twitter @kschlenker)
To me a lot of the "high arts" are seemingly networking events for rich people or soon to be rich people.
I was interviewed for this article, it looks like my comments were used well and relatively in context. That being said I definitely don't fit into the tech + art audience that was being defined in this article. It seems to be implied that there is a large amount of naïveté regarding art amongst techies, which is very true for the most part, and they're just looking to burn their piles of tech money on something pret…
Just my 2 cents from the inside.
I was interviewed for this article, it looks like my comments were used well and relatively in context. That being said I definitely don't fit into the tech + art audience that was being defined in this article. It seems to be implied that there is a large amount of naïveté regarding art amongst techies, which is very true for the most part, and they're just looking to burn their piles of tech money on something pret…
As a museum technologist and someone who works daily harnessing technology to help make collection objects and exhibitions more accessible and open, I found this article to be a bit skewed. Granted, the thrust was on personal collecting habits of those in the tech sector, but I find the arts/tech community to be vibrant, passionate and invested. Just my 2 cents from the inside.
I love how there's this expectation that once you've made a lot of money you're somehow instantly transformed from what you were before into something else entirely. You're suddenly supposed to care and be interested in a load of things you were never interested in before. To me a lot of the "high arts" are seemingly networking events for rich people or soon to be rich people.
the trouble is for art dealers you have to wait to late in peoples lives or for the second generation to grow up before they start investing in art in the main.
they do seem to be "chardee" events for 60 year olds who have made it to squire their third trophy wife to
I was interviewed for this article, it looks like my comments were used well and relatively in context. That being said I definitely don't fit into the tech + art audience that was being defined in this article. It seems to be implied that there is a large amount of naïveté regarding art amongst techies, which is very true for the most part, and they're just looking to burn their piles of tech money on something pret…
Hi John, I loved this article, especially “I want to meet the artists and hear their stories about why they make what they make. I don’t want to go to the parties.” I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought. Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at inti…