A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
The Internet Art Gallery as an Aesthetic Free Space for Youth
Authors: Granö Päivi
Editors: Luis Acebal, Paul Majkut
Conference name: The Society for Phenomenology and Media 13th Annual Conference in Freiburg
Publishing place: San Diego , CA
Publication year: 2011
Journal: Glimpse
Volume: 13
First page : 65
Last page: 70
eISBN: 2475-4234
ISSN: 1544-0052
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/glimpse20111312
Internet art galleries are popular spaces for young artists to represent and share their art. This enables them to obtain feedback and create their general concept of art. By interpreting an interview with a young artist, drawings and textual interactions, this article examines the culture of the popular Finnish art gallery Harhakuva.org.
The results show that this online interaction teaches the youth to draw realistically, which they regard highly, and that they find more honesty and relevance in the feedback that they receive on the Internet than in what their teachers provide at school.