Recent Press

As with any Internet start-up, we at @Platea have relied on the generosity of others more established in the online art world to spread the word about our collective and about our upcoming performances. We are grateful to the following blogs for reviewing our work, mentioning us in their posts and just generally promoting our collective online.

In a world of short attention spans and quick-to-fade buzz, we are incredibly grateful. The following list also appears on the right column, a new "recent press" section.

Reviews
Bad at Sports
Twit Twat Twut, The Art of Twitter

Hrag Vartanian
Two Tweeters & a Tweety Bird

smArts & Culture
When Art is Viral


Mentions
New Curator
@Platea Project 1: The Great Yawn

Tomorrow Museum
@Platea “Stweet Art"

We also want to share out a big thank you to all those who helped promote @Platea with their Twitter accounts, via #followfriday mentions, RT's and just general promotion about our work. We've received too much support to list out here but would be remiss in failing to acknowledge your critical role in helping make the Great Yawn a success.

If you mentioned our work in your blog and we've not listed it here, please don't hesitate to leave a comment or send us a message via Twitter.

@Platea Partnering with Art K. MacGuffin

After an excellent twitterview with @Platea founder An Xiao and art critic and Twitteratus Hrag Vartanian , @Platea is please to announce a new partnership! Art K. MacGuffin, an online collective of art historians, collectors, art dealers and art brokers, will be collaborating with @Platea and helping promote our activities to the greater arts community.

As Dan of Art K. MacGuffin notes, "We are incredibly pleased to collaborate with an artist of as great a caliber as An Xiao and as innovative an arts group as @Platea. We are excited for the wonderful projects on the horizon." The folks at Art K. MacGuffin have been mentioned alongside An in the Guardian UK's list of the who's who of the Twitter art world, and they were interviewed by Hrag earlier this month about selling art in the blogosphere.

We're super excited to be working with them, and this partnership will enable some exciting new projects down the line in social media land. In the mean time, be sure to check them out online at the following venues:

• On their blog at http://artmacguffin.blogspot.com
• Podcasting from their iTunes Music Store channel
• Tweeting about art and arts-related issues at @artmacguffin

Live Twitterview with Hrag Vartanian Weds 3/18 @ 9p Eastern

Move over, McCain and Stephanopoulos: none other than art world Twitteratus Hrag Vartanian will be conducting a live Twitterview with An Xiao about the recently-founded @Platea, and @Platea's efforts to bring public art to the digital megacity of online social media.

Hrag's and An's portraits painted by Matt Held. It's a little-known fact that excessive Twitter use
causes glasses and a tendency to look left. Scientists have yet to understand why.

And when, dear readers, will this occur? Why, one day after McCain-Stephanopoulos tweet it out:

Hrag Vartanian and An Xiao: A Live Twitterview
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
9:00 pm Eastern (Prime time!)
Add @hragv and @thatwaszen on Twitter

But don't worry, if you're not Twitter-addicted like us a member of the elite Twitterati, Hrag will be posting a recap to his blog afterward, and we will of course link it here.