Comments on: Who pays for art http://www.miserychick.net/2010/02/who-pays-for-art/ *miserychick is actually happy Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris http://www.miserychick.net/2010/02/who-pays-for-art/comment-page-1/#comment-1866 Chris Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:45:05 +0000 http://www.miserychick.net/?p=924#comment-1866 I get asked this quite a lot too, although thankfully not at conferences creating award moments like this :) It seems many artists work in education, or they take on some commercial jobs that you don't tell people about & those jobs help pay for the art. There is quite a good interview with scott snibbe here... http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2006/01/Snibbe/index.htm " Can one live from making interactive art? Or to put it this way: Is there a market for such kind of art? Who wants to buy interactive installations and why?" I get asked this quite a lot too, although thankfully not at conferences creating award moments like this :)

It seems many artists work in education, or they take on some commercial jobs that you don’t tell people about & those jobs help pay for the art.

There is quite a good interview with scott snibbe here…

http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2006/01/Snibbe/index.htm

” Can one live from making interactive art? Or to put it this way: Is there a market for such kind of art? Who wants to buy interactive installations and why?”

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