Portland Social Media

Art Face Off

By Tim

I came across Art Face Off via an email from Portland Adverting Federation’s VOX email newsletter this afternoon.

Who?
Art Face Off is online community with the stated mission: Forging a new art world through democracy and community.

What?
Art Face Off is one part Kitten War and one part Hot or Not. It’s like Kitten War in that two artists are pitted against each other and you vote on the piece of art work you like best. There are 8 art media categories from you to choose from, so if you are better versed in Painted works you can just vote in that medium.

Art Face Off courts three types of people into joining and participating in their site, they are (1) Artists, (2) Art Lovers/Visitors and (3) Curators. Each classification is allowed to do and not do certain things.

If you join as a member of Art Face Off and login, you can browse the portfolios of other artists that are signed up with Art Face Off and Rate Their Artwork - on a number scale reminiscent of Hot or Not. Signed up as an Artist on Art Face Off you can:

• Gain exposure- we get over 600,000 hits a day
• Grow new hair
• Have yourname.artfaceoff.com as your free portfolio!
• Send postcards to your friends
• Create your own personal art collection
• Connect with curators
• Build a mailing list

Why?
Many of the so-called Web 2.0 web sites today incorporate a “voting” feature baked into the site - i.e. Digg, Reddit, etc. These feature has been dubbed “democratic” and is seen by many as a benefit to the members of a web site and the community the web site resides in - so Digg’s feature of user’s voting on stories that are of interest to that user is a benefit to the site and presumably to people that are short-on-time online and need or want to keep-up with the latest Buzz. So, a little healthy competition is viewed as an incredible boost in producing better art (I’ll stop there because I don’t want to get in a conversation with an Art aficionado about what makes a piece of art better).

With competition comes a reward and Art Face Off provides, “$1,000US to the overall winner of each general media, a spot in the Athena Awards collective exhibition, and an award at the ceremony!“.

Where?
http://www.artfaceoff.com

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