How Artists Can Be Part of the New Digital Creator Economy/visual culture: No- ( Ubi Vermis Recordings)
- Michael Oliver
- Jan 23
- 2 min read

Ubi vermis recordings project is a independent mission for enabling and pushing creative expression and freedom without top down delineation. its principles of immediate execution and publishing exemplifies contemporary approaches to distributing art in the current age of the internet.
stylistically taking from mixed media works of the late to mid 20th century done through digital manipulation. "The formative aesthetic style was heavily influenced by the work of Vaughan Oliver / 23 Envelope, The Brothers Quay and later David Carson. This was further enriched by the contributions of Neville Brody, Tomato, 8VO, Jonathan Barnbrook, The Designers Republic, Chris Ashworth, Thomas Schostock, and Eduardo Recife to name but a few but equally owes much to Max Ernst, Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism."
these influence though immediate and evident evoke the reprisal of latter 20th century and early millennium stylistic choices such as grunge and y2k. noisy and destructive aesthetic arranged in bold and geometric compositions.
it seems that the artist is applies techniques in hands on mixed media collage to a digital format. take photographs of scans and arranging them into the finished piece.
being a creator as defined and understood in the article is essential a person that creates a living through online presence and "content", and artist can be a creator but due to the broad defintiton and how much being a creator online is tied to the current capitalist system, it nessitates compramizing ones artistic voice atleast in someway to appease the algorithym.
in a way the new creator economy represent the American dream, the idea anyone can make it and pick them selves up by their bootstraps. the idea that everyone must be a entrepreneur or a small business owner and that everything must be monetized. the main issue is not only that you have to commodify some or even all aspects of your life or creative output but that is must be done in a way which fulfills the role of content online. whilst it is possible to make it be a artist who exist in the creator space its also extremely difficult. say your a animator on Youtube who can only make so much "content" but its algorithms demand consistent daily content of a certain length an even longer. you'll be buried in recommended.


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