Studio Visit App

We've been doing this forever. That's why we're still amateurs. Were it not for the work of our peers, visit, inc. would have been a terrible company. Instead we were a "failed" start-up, running cover under the idea that we'd really gotten one over on professional practice by turning down money in a continuous way, dogfooding the work of art through Xtreme programming and giving pitch presentations on the most consequential form of performance art of all time.

In our demos and talks we mapped input to output, quoting Duchamp - "America's greatest works of art are her plumbing and her bridges" - while breezing through PowerPoint slides leaked from decks that had first been delivered to safety engineers during testing of the doomed spaceship Columbia. The saying "dumb like a painter", has traditionally referred to the illusion and assertion of surface value over depth. When visit, inc. incorporated under the Chelsea highline at Hauser & Wirth Roth's Bar, we were well aware that even though capital was cheap that if we weren't giving back more than we took we wouldn't be serving our stakeholders.

The Millennial generation of artists was probably just as dumb to mortgage their future on the market-ready representation of the artist as the last, and the generation before that. But the post-war American artists-- Jeff Koons, whose glossy tumescent balloon dogs are what the Hong Kong billionaire buys to distinguish himself from the Russian oligarch;Andy Warhol, a pasty Polish guy who lived with his mother for most of his life, and died shortly after she "went to Bloomingdales"-- these are artists for whom the idea of an advanced degree in art would have been a joke. They put $10 in a hat at the Art Students League to draw a naked lady or a Sumo wrestler from time to time; they did their work. They also shot heroin and wore pajama's under their tuxedo coat. They went on to teach in the universities that in the decades after the G.I. Bill would see a reckless expansion of higher professional degrees in art.

The artists who came of age in the last days of disco were boomers by the time they got rich. Staring into a video camera somewhere deep in the bowels of Lower Manhattan, Richard Prince, a contemporary artist who makes twice as much money as Christopher Nolan, admitted he was 47 before he saw any kind of commercial success. In the six hour disposition, Prince explains that the world of culture and the world of commerce play by different rules. There are other rewards. Like getting deposed. Koon's balloon dogs are interchangeable with inflation as seen in corporate lobbies, international museum hubs and yachts; not only do these aluminum bubbles represent inflation, they actively construct the milieu of exorbitant privilege that requires it. Koon's executed the first balloon dog the same year Viagra hit the market.

In late 2018, it cost five times as much to go to graduate school as it did to fork over $500 to Stripe Atlas to *also* go into debt. We built a slick but informal scheduling tool; an index of practices searchable by location and other metadata; and a relevant feed of in-progress work (links, images, code, video, audio). Studio Visit will encourage users to quickly document their work and share it with friends and colleagues.