Nora BARNACLE Joyce
Yes Folks. Its official – The first Virtual Art Fair.
Taking place on line in January 2011 for 7 days.
Participants include blue chippy galleries like David Zwirner, Hauser and Wirth, White Cube, Gagasion, Salon 94.
While the online fair permits free browsing, interactive capabilities will cost “visitors” $100. This means no more chit-chatting with dealers about the work they’re handling for the unwashed masses.
The virtual booths in the fair are priced from $5,000 to $20,000. How did you come up with these figures?
We started with the price of the larger booths — $20,000 is roughly 20 percent of what the total cost of a brick-and-mortar fair would be. Because there dealers have not only booth cost, but also travel, hotel, and so forth.
OK enough, enough!
Next Sunday – 22/08/2010 – I will be exhibiting my artwork in my first Virtual Art Fair.
My friend Duncan is hosting a Virtual Art Fair.
Tours are free, booth space is free (~.00000001% of the norm!) but limited to 10 web-ready works each, either as <2MB files or as hotlinked media.
Interactivity is free.
You can “curate” your own tour by collecting URLs and posting them together as a comment on an upcoming blog post. He gets 0% of any sales the booths/artists make, and visitors can record whatever they want. Go, capitalism, go!
Wanna learn more? Contact me above.
