I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
~Ulysses, Lord Alfred Tennyson
VEXT is exactly this:
A place of vision, voice and text for the online artist...
A place where new online artists from all disciplines are welcome to showcase their work. A place to find ourselves and lose ourselves - our idea of Heaven on Earth. VEXT has no manifesto, no political pretensions, no editoria
l restrictions. Our editors, however, have a passionate belief in the need for art and the critical thinking that it inspires. We are committed to the internet as our medium for the creation and dissemination of art. The egalitarian nature of digital media with its global accessibility and its history of sharing information appeals to our aesthetic and ethical sensibilities. The internet allows for interaction and interpretation of works between writer and reader, artist and viewer, writer and writer, artist and artist, writer and artist. It is a divine consummation devoutly to be wished...
Here is where we share a few of our favorite things: works from up-and-coming artists with whom we have had the unique opportunity of meeting online exclusively through the magical connectivity of social media. We also offer perennial classics - everything that we deem worthy of our time and yours for reading, listening and viewing now. "When in 1863 the famous exhibition space of French Academy Salon refused about 4,000 out of 5,000 submissions, the artists voiced their concerns about the relevance of academic criteria; whereupon Napoleon started Salon des Refuses to let the public judge the quality of the rejected artworks ." (Harrison, 1988, p. 506)
While today, there are many online communities of art and art appreciators to play the role of the Salon des Refuses, VEXT has witnessed the increasing difficulty for the dedicated online artists that we personally champion and appreciate reading to be seen and heard. Many sites insist upon retaining copyrights of the works they publish. VEXT finds that inherently unfair and means to redress the balance by not demanding exclusivity to work that is published here. Art belongs to the artists, and to the world they wish to share it with, not to the editors or publishers of online magazines. VEXT does not purchase art, nor do we sell it. We share it. All and any work posted here is the exclusive property of its authors and creators. VEXT retains no exclusive rights to any work published here. Work published elsewhere is welcome. No work may be reprinted without written permission from the artist. http://vextmagazine.blogspot.com/
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