What is Stockartist?

Main Idea
StockArtist is a conceptual, interactive and participatory art project. It is a new business model for the fine art world. The main objective of StockArtist is to create the first Stock Exchange Market for the Visual Art World. Through the StockArtist model it is possible to create a democratic and fun way to buy, sell, auction and exchange art.

Democratic
The type of artwork offered by StockArtist has to have the following characteristics in order to be democratic:

1. Cheap: The initial price of every at work will be between 1 and 99 Euros
   
2. Many: : Every artist has to create a minimum of 100 pieces of art. (Important! It is not necessary to produce the complete set of pieces to participate. Each artist can create a sample of pieces 1, 2, 10, etc., whatever amount he/she considers necessary as a sample of their ArtStocks concept.)
   
3. Easy transportation: The art pieces must be small and light in weight in order to be inexpensive to ship. For example: a maximum weight of 300 grams and a maximum size of an A4 standard. At StockArtist every art piece is named "ArtStock" and shipping will be described in detail.

Fun
StockArtist provides a platform on the Internet to create a networking - game environment for people. Artlovers can form communities, provide information, publish opinions, buy, sell, auction and exchange ArtStocks, and more. At the same time, artists can upload and maintain the information about each piece of art work, future and actual projects, life, opinions, virtual store, etc.

ArtStocks
Every artist that wants to participate in StockArtist, has to create and produce their own series of ArtStocks. Let us first clarify what an ArtStock is. An ArtStock is an object created by an artist with some physical characteristics:

1. Maximum size on 2D format A4
2. Maximum size on 3D format 20x20x20 cms
3. Maximum weight 300 grams on both cases

The good news is that, out of these three points, the artists are free to use their imagination to create their ArtStocks. In fact, the ArtStocks can be anything. For example: stickers, postals, photos, CDs, stones, cartoons, t-shirts, etc. Click here to see visual examples. ArtStocks represents the artists in the StockArtist game.The rules are as follows:

1. Each artist's ArtStocks series has a specific number of ArtStocks. The minimum are 100, but could be, for example: 500, 2000, 10,000, 75,675, etc. (Whatever amount each artist wants to or can produce.) Once the ArtStocks amount is set in the game, the number cannot be changed.
2. The format or designs of the ArtStocks can be just one style or can be all different from eachother.
3. The launching price has to be between 1 and 99 Euros
4. On every ArtStock the artist has to print a unique ten character code provided by Stockartist