Right, definitely. The Koons sculpture in Central Park is worse than a one-liner. It has ZERO context. It's transient just as Snapchat is. (Which makes it a nice pairing.) < and maybe that's the point?
Anyway, we live in super-connected world. Why can't this digital public space experiment snowball into real and legitimate community empowerment? The tools and the audience are there.
OK, then, how about a competition to propose uses/projects that would explore the best possibilities? The rules of such a competition would sketch out rich areas for creatives to work in. Good results should put the Koons/Snapchat example in perspective as hardly an ideal example.
Well... think of a Steemit post as a competition... A lot of what STEEM Park sought to do is just this. There was a park in Brooklyn that needed amenities and momentum. @sndbox proposed using Steemit as a platform to share the narrative of the park and leverage storytelling / history to raise funds. Those funds then paid for planters and benches for the park. Today, the conservancy in Brooklyn is leveraging that project to continue to raise funds for signage.
We wanted a proof of concept that "stories" could be agents to manifest public art and build momentum for a community. Time will tell, but there's a lot of momentum building and change happening.
(Steemit blog posts are a lot like competitions, because they compete for Steem.)
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