Deviant Art

Self-portrait

We are where art starts, but that's only the beginning. We are the movement for the liberation of creative expression. We believe that art is for everyone, and we're creating the cultural context for how it is created, discovered, and shared.

Founded in August 2000, DeviantArt is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts, and a platform for emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works with an enthusiastic, art-centric community. We have over 38 million registered members and attract over 65 million unique visitors per month. Our members — knowns as deviants — upload over 160,000 original art works every day, everything from painting and sculpture to digital art, pixel art, films, and anime.

Artists love us because we are an inclusive and supportive community. We help them find their identity through self-expression. We provide the tools, resources, and exposure to enable them to become better, more successful artists. We inspire people to create art by feeding their creativity. We can't help it — it runs through our veins and compels us to nurture it in others. This is DeviantArt. (http://about.deviantart.com/)

Description

Deviant art is a social network of artists and lovers of the visual arts, and also a platform to exhibit, promote and sell works by both emerging and established artists. The project began with a group of people who modificated computer applications to "divert" them according to their own tastes. In 2000, Matt Stephens, Scott Jarkoff and Angelo Sotira, who currently serves as Executive Director, officially founded Deviant Art, which is the largest virtual art community with 26 million registered people and 251 million participating artists. The project's headquarters are in Hollywood and the executive office in New York.

For 7 years it worked with an investment of $ 15000 dollars. Later on it received donations from anonymous investors. In 2006 the site gave users the opportunity to upload their own works under Creative Commons licenses. Deviants can put on sale prints of their works in the store of the site. You can even perform transactions on DeviantDollars.

Deviant Art serves as a conversation and criticism platform where users can comment or annotate on videos, pages, and pieces displayed online. The goal is to provide entertainment and inspiration by celebrating the creative expression of a broad growing community that seeks to push the barriers of conventions and share the most avant-garde visual creations.

The artworks are organized by categories that include photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, flash, cinematography, applications, plus downloadable resources and tutorials such as stock photography. Each member has a profile and a blog where they individually organize their artworks in folders, get information about the visits they receive and messages from their viewers.

Deviant Art has organized international exhibitions such as the Deviant Art Summit in Los Angeles, Deviant Art World Tour and devianMEETs which are occasional meetings of the members to interact. In 2014, the application for iOS and Android was developed.

Interview

Josh Wattles http://dpya.org/en/index.php/Josh_Wattles

Links

URL: http://www.deviantart.com/

Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deviantart.com/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt