#igdevelopment

[theactivatedspectator]

iG update week 12

I am starting to find iG quite restrictive because the work I post has to be visually consistent or at least visually evolving over the page...there are side projects I’m working on that I would like to have a place to share and talk about in a lot more detail.

I looked at when my website was renewing and it is scheduled for the 1st of may - I have made the decision to cancel my cargo collective subscription and begin one with squarespace - squarespace has an offer with kingston uni so I can get it half price and it allows an integrated blog / easy sales integration. 

Watch this space must now populate it in 3 weeks woooo.

[theactivatedspectator]

iG Update Week 11

iG Has proved useful the past few weeks in connecting me with artists and collectives.

My friend Lucas has begun a group called ‘distance collective’, everyweek a new word is published, last week “reflections” and you have a week to respond to the word in whatever way you can. 

I am receiving an online portfolio review from a  member of Revolv Collective.

I have discovered a residency in south Korea that is free to apply to and funded when you get there!

[theactivatedspectator]

IG Update Week 7

I have been trying to use the platform in a more generic way this week. Posting work in progress and pictures of myself so that visitors can see I am a real human being making real things. 

I have not been so wholeheartedly using hashtags this week - If I’m honest I keep forgetting once I have posted. 

Something new I’m doing is adding my featured stories so that eventually they will spell out K I N G.

[theactivatedspectator]

iG update week 6

Over the last week I have made 6 new posts to iG. One of which is a iGTV video of  my enter the simulation project from 2017. Any video over 60 seconds gets added as a iGTV vid -- once iG vids are uploaded you can add a swipe up to stories that will link the viewer directly to the video. 

I have been trying my best to interact with other artists on the platform and get reposted in their stories. So far one has been successful. 

[theactivatedspectator]

ig update week 5

In the last week I have posted twice to iG. One image is of a 3d scan of one of my masks - a work in progress and the second is of some sketchbook work demonstrating my mood boards. 

I have gained 30 odd followers in the last week but have also followed around 100 new accounts. 

People absorb on iG mostly peripheral content the mode of viewing is that of zapping. By posting art work after artwork becomes too much to view in the context of this platform. My work needs to be more interspersed with life - that purely visual content that will help their eyes and minds linger over my work.