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?