Artist webring?
3yr
Yiming Wu
I think with social media distraction and personal blog/website is in a revival among artists recently, I'd like to know if any of you collaborate in any form of an artist's web ring? (In case you are not familiar with this idea that's basically personal sites linking each other and they have a phone book kind of index you can go through) If you do what webrings do you join?
I've been following some web rings like Lowtech Webring, XXIIVV Webring and so on, you can find some very interesting people on those "niche" places.
Since Proko 2.0 becomes a thing actually I think Proko is actually in the perfect place to host an (or several) artist webring(s) that allows artists to go through each other's website/blog quickly without all the social platform kind of hassle, and this also give other people quick navigation when e.g. they want to explore artists of the same style or something like that.
Any thoughts?
3yr
Lol I'm old enough to remember the beginning of internet where each image was so long to download it has to be worth it. There were such "gallery" making you discover niche artists, often dark fantasy, sci-fi and such... That was great and I honestly regret these "phone book" disapeared because I never found some of these old ref back...
Social media aren't good for niche/confidential art and also very "dominated" by a style at a time, like fashion. I found old place like deviantart or the old elfwood to be more interesting for visual diversity, but so messy it's hard to navigate... At least I'm glad to see many different profile in Proko, I just hope we see even more.
Yiming Wu
3yr
The thing about one concentrated platform is that it's quite hard to find people that are in tune with each other, so that they will form interest groups and stuff like that. It's one chaos but there's very few chance that people that are alike will link themselves closer. Just like any other art platform, artstation, instagram, whatever, it's forever show show show but never much interaction. I think if Proko really keep the site in this forum style, it might just be the right thing. Although I suggested in another post that it might be a good idea to have a community gallery, that is for discoveries only in this context, but hard to control where you want that line to be.
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3yr
I had no idea there were still webrings!
I think it'd be cool to be part of a little collective; I do miss those fansites run by one random person who was really into [obscure hobby]. On big aggregator sites, I find they sort of just throw you into a really broad category like "Photography", maybe give you some tags.
3yr
Yeah... they still exist to a extent. Mostly now they are like... programming, underground music, writing and stuff. There are art ones as well but I don't seem to find much use because a lot of those don't get updates and the content isn't quite the same as what we tend to follow in the social media. So it would be nice if we can host a visual artist's web ring in a "more in-tuned" place like this? LOL
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