Strictly Business Report 2020-09-01

Art and work. New music, product review, business news, etc.

Welcome to the Strictly Business Report where I report anything I want related to art and work.

Something I’ve been interested in for several years now is the tension between art and capital. I find it peculiar that art has become an industry and investment vehicle that is capitalistic and also as opaque as the healthcare costs. MFAs have the same odds of making a career or their art as do entrepreneurs of launching a unicorn startup. How did we get here? Is it simply the market screwing up the life of the creative genius? As a free market-minded, entrepreneurial individual whose formative years were steeped in underground music and netart I see multiple paths for artists. On the right is pure market-driven activities and on the left is diy, and somewhere in between is where the opportunity exists.

My hope through this newsletter is to find other artists whose views are not so dogmatic regarding the artist’s options to create a sustainable practice. There are more ways available than the art gallery route (do these exist in 2020?), patreons, and not making any money. In subsequent newsletters, we will explore various ways artists are creating sustainable practices today.

Also in this Report:

• 🎵 Music recc

• 📦 Product recc

• 🗞 News

• 👀 Highlights

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What I’m listening to

imho, this should be a contender for one of the best music videos. enjoy:

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Product reccs

I recently stumbled on Quotebacks.net which is created by @tobyshorin (academic art twitter) and @tomcritchlow (quirky entrepreneur). It’s a fun and easy way to quote anything on the internet and easily embed it into whatever. Doesn’t seem like I can embed it in substack yet, but it does allow to have the quoteback embedded as an image:

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News

dump.fm is dead 💀

hyperallergic @hyperallergic

In Memory of Dump.fm, an Endlessly Collaborative Image Poem

hyperallergic.comIn Memory of Dump.fm, an Endlessly Collaborative Image PoemDump.fm died a quiet, seemingly definitive death this month, after having survived a number of rumored deaths over the years.

but, but netart gets a friendly nod in nyt and sock.chat is alive 🧦

Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney

For @nytopinion I wrote my opinion, which is that net art is good

nytimes.comOpinion | The Unexpected Joy of Internet ArtWith so many museums around the world closed, art made from the internet for the internet has been a saving grace.

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Highlights

Good 🧵 on remote onboarding, but what is a YELLING room?

Justin Garrison @rothgar

Someone asked me today what it takes to successfully onboard someone remotely. Here's my wish list as an employee who has been onboarded 100% remote a couple of times

Discovered that Soulja Boy has some good startup founder energy tweets

Soulja Boy (Drako) @souljaboy

Don’t expect success if you’re not working.

Chloë Bass’ work isn’t something I’m personally into but I wish we would’ve seen more outdoor art while the weather was nice

New York Times Arts @nytimesarts

“I was creating at a monumental scale at a moment when monuments are seen as an imposition,” the artist Chloë Bass said. Her latest exhibition, mounted outdoors by the Studio Museum in Harlem, is on view now in St. Nicholas Park.

nyti.msThis Way to Chloë Bass’s Outdoor Art ShowThe artist’s exhibition in St. Nicholas Park, mounted by the Studio Museum in Harlem, revolves around questions like: “How much of life is coping?”

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Come across some ♨️ ⛓, art ‘n tech news, 🌶 opinions, or neet products? Send them my way for inclusion in an upcoming Strictly Business Report.

Sincerely,

Tyler