I’m leaving, on a jet plane…. Tomorrow I pack up and head to Austin, Texas where the craziest tech, music and film conference/festival/all out creative bash takes place. The annual South by Southwest (affectionately called SXSW) begins today. I have the great good fortune to be speaking on a panel Monday, March 15th with Hugh MacLeod, John Unger and Amrita Chandra. Hugh and John are both artists and Amrita is an art dealer and forward thinker re. art and the web. She is also the organizer of the panel.
What the 4 of us have most in common, besides the whole art thing, is the passion to reconcile art and commerce. In an honest and upfront manner. Art and commerce have been uncomfortable bed fellows for many people over the eons. The love of money and all that. We will argue and explain how that is pure rubish and it is the empowered artist, making a living, that will truly change the game.
If you are at the event this year, do stop by. Otherwise, bug me to write more. 
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by Ana on March 14, 2010
No I can not be at the event, a few kilometers prevent me, but I still long evolution of both artists and they are artists who believe in themselves and in their art, and they work much his promotion on the networks. I am also trying to reconcile the two worlds, art and commerce, are fully reconciled, but we strive to banish forever the image of poor artist, an artist with more quality, which is still in the minds of many artists. Have a good time at the event!! Wait your stories when you return.
by dana hoey on July 14, 2010
art & commerce can be friends. i agree! art, like church, involves money, nothing doesn’t, til you’re dead! i like realistic optimism!