Alejandro Rodriguez
12-6-14
Smoozing
Project
So
for my smoozing project I went to the small art talk for the Fort Worth based
new media artist Christopher Blay. The lecture itself was very informal, Blay
wanted it to be very lax and not too up tight, from my time with him that just
seemed to be that type of guy he is. After the lecture, I was able to talk to
for a little bit. I told him that I too was a new media artist, though I didn’t
have anyway to show him my work, though he didn’t take any offence to it. We
talked a little a bit about our work, but the real meat of our conversation was
when he stated telling me about the art community in Fort Worth. He said he so
much more prefer the art community of Fort Worth, as oppose the community in
New York, was because the artist in Fort Worth had a more tight and diverse
network with one another. Its one of those situations where everyone knows
everyone and that there’s a friendlier bond amongst them that doesn’t have a
harsh competitive nature to it. This is where Blay said, for him, it was more
important to have a friendly network of artist like this than one where you so
happen to have the card of another artist you met once. He said that his style
of community prosper more creativity for not only his art, but for his peers
too. With this I agreed with, mainly because I seem to operate in the same way,
I have a tight clique of friends and artist whom all know each other, and
actually care about one another.
