Social Networks are the big deal for artists nowadays.
Websites are a thing of the past! So, why the hell even bothering building a website?
Several reasons.
Being able to show my work the way I want: in a nice, tidy place where you can spend some time in, come back to, dive again more in depth, with no other random content from other people fighting for your attention span on the same screen. I like a magazine/museal kind of work presentation, I strongly believe in the benefits of isolating content and I'm fed up of social networks visual impositions and criteria.
Being able to publish content once and just use all of the social networks assets to spread it it's just ace.
Every post on a website is an asset. Every comment you receive is an asset. I like the idea of being able to sell my work properly and keeping things alltogether within the same space helps for sure.
I like websites! Immaginary independent places that you can actually try to know in every detail. Places with a beginning point and an ending one, where things are displayed and kept at the same time.
Always loved the idea of running my own website, It's like having my own art gallery, spam free.
Now, some simple rules on how to interact with me:
- From now on, my social profiles will only act as sharing tools for my website: real time, one way communication channels to spread my website contents. Profiles will keep being updated automagically, but I will not answer directly to comments on social networks anymore.
- To write comments or questions use the comments system on my website or reach me via contacts page.
- I won't answer private messages on social networks. I do not personally run those profiles anymore: all requests on social networks will be ignored. Again: use my website contact page instead.
- The person in charge of keeping my Facebook profile tidy and running has been instructed not to answer to anybody.
For Italian readers:
Alcune semplici regole che mi sono imposto.
- I miei profili social diventano ne più ne meno un modo di seguirmi via feed RSS. Sono esclusivamente un canale di output. Saranno aggiornati costantemente, con un processo automatico di reblog di tutto quello che faccio sul mio sito web, ma non risponderò più ai commenti direttamente sui social.
- Per scrivermi commenti o domande usate il sistema di commenti sotto ogni post o la pagina dei contatti del mio sito web.
- Dai miei profili social non rispondo a nessuno, neanche via messaggio privato. Non gestisco più io i profili, quindi fate prima a contattarmi dal mio sito web: tutte le richieste dirette sui social verranno ignorate.
- La persona che si occupa dei miei profili Facebook è stata istruita a non rispondere a nessuno.
- Ripeto: se ne avete bisogno, contattatemi tranquillamente qui.
- Dove possibile i post saranno in lingua inglese.