This article proposes crowd-sourcing financial support for creative work. This has some positive benefits (spreading responsibility and engagement that might encourage more people to choose a creative path in life) but the problem is that it would more likely support popular work at the expense of the experimental. If the intent is to come up with a model to replace how the mass and popular media currently generate income then I think it has some value as a model - but if it is to do that at the expense of supporting difficult and challenging work (the author argues for scrapping the NEA and other organisations that do not have to satisfy popular opinion) then it would spell the end of public support for experimental arts practice.
The idea doesn't get my vote. Best Simon On 19/02/2011 09:54, "dave miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > "But there are more important questions at stake here, > specifically the support of creative work in the > Internet Age. The basic problem is that we no longer > have a working model for supporting creative work." > > http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/11/beyond_the_huffington_post_win > dfall_a_new_way_to_f/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
