How Do The Indyish Know Who’s Cool?
by Tessa Smith
Ever wondered how Indyish picks which artists to put on the site?
Well, I once heard Risa say, “Essentially, the growth of Indyish has been a playful experiment in social networks. From the beginning, bringing on new artists has been at [my] discretion.”
And this other time she was like, “[I] wanted to start [my] own store, and [I] invited people to participate whose work [I] liked. In practice, this has been undertaken with a lot of conversations and consultations with the artists, with friends, etc.”
Which reminded me of another thing she had said, “People have been invited on because of a combination of personal connection (this was made easy-ish by the fact that we mostly live in the same ‘hood) and a shared aesthetic. Indyish artists have been able to recommend other artists, to introduce us to the work of other artists they like and admire, and we’ve then worked to try and get those people involved.”
She has also posited that, “as indyish grows we will evolve our membership mechanisms to make the process more technically streamlined, and perhaps to include a more official period of consultation with the artists, and a voting process. Again, the indyish blog would be the place to watch for updates.”
And when I heard that, I was instantly like, “Ok cool.”
Interested?
Yes!
Wanna get involved in other (awesome) ways?
You’re darn right I do.
Risa quotes courtesy of Indyish FAQ page
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Published on: September 26th, 2006
Terms Used: artists, Blog, get involved, interview, new artists, Risa, Tessa
About: Tessa Smith
Tessa co-runs Fixture Records and plays in Brave Radar.
Email: Tessa @ indyish . com
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The other most important way that people get involved is by asking to be involved, indyish depends on self-motivation, bc there’s a lot to learn about the system while we’re still building it. and then of course by having work that’s at a place where you can see that the maker is a unique brain. every brain is probably unique, but i think it takes a lot of work in most cases to make that brave uniqueness apparent in your art. it’s a ballsy thing to do. Sometimes I’ve gotten work submitted where I couldn’t see the maker in it, just echoes of other people’s paintings, for example; or sometimes where I couldn’t see the work at all because the photographs were unfortunately bad. I want Indyish to be a place where that leetle kernely spark of your-own-way-dom is safe, and maybe even encouraged by what you see others doing, and so everything should be interesting and quality. And I think it’s ok if that’s, for now anyway, sustained by a pretty subjective descision making, especially given that it’s all made of free open source software. If you wanted to, and if you could figure out the code or get some good geeks to help you, you could build your own indyish, and we’d be down with that.
so we’ll see what happens!
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