Steering an Art Collective

Presented at Notacon 2 (2005), April 9, 2005, 5 p.m. (60 minutes).

The creative process is inherently fluid and changing, but the need to produce a "product" on a regular basis is not. Whether working on a website, pushing out a magazine, or even adding to a collection, a regular schedule helps keep your audience. But how do you reconcile that structure with dozens of artists working by their own internal creative clocks?

For years, ACiD productions, an ANSI Art group, pushed out regular "art packs" on BBSes and later the Internet, expanding from text-based art to high-resolution creations and even into music. Running the show was Christian Wirth, aka "RaD Man". As leader of ACiD Productions, he was responsible for ensuring there was artwork available for each upcoming release, quality control, and membership issues. Each of these required skills learned on the way and at what sometimes ended up being intense personal cost. Hear the stories and lessons learned from his 15 years in the artscene, and how you can apply these lessons to your own projects.


Presenters:

  • Christian Wirth / RaDMan - ACiD   as Christian Wirth aka RaD Man
    Christian "RaD Man" Wirth is a computer artist and historian who has been actively involved in text-based artwork for over 15 years. As a member of the Aces of ANSI Art (AAA) in the late 1980s and co-founder of the art group ACiD Productions (ANSI Creators in Demand), he has witnessed a large swath of computer art history as it played out online in the 1990s. Now in semi-retirement as the leader of ACiD, he has focused on tracing as much historical knowledge as possible in the field of text-based and computer-assisted artwork of the 20th century. He is the host of a monthly online radio show, The ARTS (Artscene Radio Talk Show) that chronicles different art scenes and the players within them. He lives in California.

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