Social Media For Artists: The Joys and Sorrows

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02/06/25 • 47 min

For many creatives navigating the landscape of social media feels totally disorienting. Share work for ourselves or to please the mystical algorithm? Pour hours into creating behind the scenes studio videos, or abandon the whole damn thing all together? In this episode we discuss the joys and sorrows of using social media as an artist, looking at the science and psychology behind compulsive scrolling, and reframing our relationship to social media based on our vales, not the metrics.

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