reflection 4: Getting connected ?
Thinking about art, thinking about making art, making art, making applications and proposals can be a solitary task and it easy to feel that all this activity has a very tiny audience.
Taking part in Making Space could have been as quiet and private as I wanted but I chose to make a couple of things happen in order to generate some energy from outside. I developed this blog as a way of slowing down and giving myself time to reflect on what I was doing and as a way of sharing the experinece.
I also arranged for a couple of quick converstations with various people at Fabrica to help open up the project.
Laurence Hill, Fabrica’s Head of Communications made some useful comments about developing a hive mentality by using Twitter – so creating a connection and information flow between people/groups who are interested in the same things you are.
He also taked about using social media effectively – so you don’t go and shout your latest news at someone at a party …you build up a relationship and conversation and then you might drop your news into the conversation – a neat analogy!
So I have spent more time on Twitter, got a few more followers and shared my news more broadly and picked up some unexpected connections en route. I also used Facebook as it is an effective way of sharing news with my existing connections and gave me a chance to promote various apects of the project. Sharing the blog on Twitter also seems a good way to increase awareness of the project and increasing that tiny audience a bit !
