YouTube as interactive
For the first time today, I saw a video on YouTube that involves interactivity. Made by a woman who calls herself Val, this was a part of Val's Art Diary. Her video involves a riddle that the user has three choices to answer. To claim your prize, you need to visit her full web site, Val's Art Diary. Here you can print out images to color, view videos of her working, see where and how she has been in the media. She talks about how her paintings sold for $500 and now sell for $5000.
How is this medium changing the art world? Is she a pioneer in changing how art is marketed? What might this do to the system of galleries and museums? Who is the arbiter of how and why certain artists are successful?