Relevance of Internet platforms to visual art in Uganda.
Abstract
Social media has been trending with purposes of marketing the artworks. In
Uganda there has been some strategies made to increase Visual art market for its
artists like trying out the Kla art which is some of the top art festivals that have
aided and helped on Uganda's visual art .This aims at taking art works from
galleries into the street of the city .This stretches to non -traditional art audiences
and gives unique platforms like the internet.
In the business world, going forward with any new venture without a proper
marketing plan is never a good idea. Similarly, just waiting around to be
'discovered' is not the best either, especially in today's time, when there are
thousands of talented artists just like you competing for exposure. You have to put
in a lot of thought and - let's face it - some work to reach your audience and build
a successful career.
Internet is a big network which is formed by connecting multiple small networks.
It is a platform for all the users which are connected to it. Internet act as platform
and involves different fields. Such as: Internet as a collaboration platform. Internet
as a online entrepreneurship platform. Internet as education platform. Internet as a
online money transaction platform. Internet as a news and latest event describer
platform.
Technology is always a historical social project: it is projected what a society and
its ruling interests intend to do with men and things". We connect to the world as
individuals on a computer looking at a screen, once connectivity is established to a
network we have access to unlimited data from other computers. Cyber Space has
replaced reality; we now have the ability to engage with objects of physical
materiality.