Del.icio.us, Diigo along with other sites, exponentially facilitate social bookmarking. Joining Del.icio.us, I was able to locate a number of people who share my interests in culture, art, contemporary art and history. I was able to narrow my search down to “Andrusca,” who evidently shares my desire to stay up-to-date with the contemporary art community.
Clicking on Andrusca’s art, music, and film “tags” revealed an interesting and exotic international roster of art communities and events from France, Spain, England, Romania and other nations. Andrusca’s bookmarking practices are not particularly thorough since he has failed to post any comments; looking over his account did not reveal any art community contact connections. However, Andrusca is a heavy user; I noted his Del.icio.us account posted 999, almost 1,000 bookmarks.
In an attempt to determine bookmarking content, I was able to ascertain that Andrusca’s first subject preference is “art” with the category of “contemporary art” ranking second amongst his top ten tags in a field of 184 tags. The tags are sorted by art, art mags, biennale, evenimente, gallery, magazine, portfolio, street art, TV and video art. Looking over dates of usage, I was able to determine that Andrusca averages access to about six sites a week. While Andrusca’s tags are not overtly well organized, you get the feeling his main goal with Del.icio.us is to keep posted about what’s up and hot.
Again, Andrusca is probably located in Spain or continental Europe and enjoys staying connected to the international art scene, which includes the latest museum shows being staged around the world. I found Andrusca’s bookmarking to be extremely interesting in this regard in discovering the Museum of Online Museums, a very convenient site that provides a prominent museum line-up from the Rijksmuseum to the National Gallery (who is posting a spectacular bust of Lorenzo di Medici on their homepage), Russian museums and other institutions. Coagula.com presents the postings of the Coagula Art Journal. Spike presents perspectives and calendar comments on Eastern European art including what’s going on in Vienna. To say the least, Andrusca’s sites are eye-opening.
Discovering Andrusca is the equivalent of climbing on his back and looking over his shoulder as he checks into international art doors. One of these places is Foundation Cartier, that features film, on-line video, music and art. That these famous jewelers are getting into the business of contemporary art sponsorship is quite a revelation – they must be trying to keep up with Rolex who sponsored Coleman’s “Ashes” photography extravaganza. One can see an enterprising Andrusca, who is very likely an artist, keeping current with where up-to-the-minute patronage of art is taking place. He’s marking the shows, the newest art coming out of schools and the critical commentary getting published. He very well might be a collector who is trying to psyche out the latest emerging sphere for his next investment. All that said, it was great to tap Andrusca’s Del.icio.us account, a not-so private line into how someone perceives the world of contemporary art.♦
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