Your record is the history of your career as ARTup holds it: the exhibitions,
publications, prizes, qualifications, public acquisitions and auction results
that make up what you have done. It is what your score is built from, and what
other people see when they look you up.
Artists building their own history, and everyone else on the platform who was
part of it: the gallery that hosted the show, the curator who selected the work,
the writer who covered it.
Add entries, and back them up. Each entry can carry the documents that
support it: a catalogue, a certificate, an invitation, a press cutting. Evidence
is what turns a claim into a record.
Name the people and works involved. Art is not made alone. When you record a
show, you can name the gallery, the curator, the artists you showed alongside,
and the works that were in it.
There are two ways of naming someone, and the difference matters.
A mention is a claim about a relationship, and it carries weight. If you say
a particular gallery showed your work, that gallery is told, and it can confirm
or dispute it. A confirmed mention is recorded as vouched for by the other
party. Planned: confirmed mentions counting towards your score.
A referral is lighter. It records a connection without asserting anything the
other party has to stand behind, such as having attended an opening or being
named in passing in a text. Referrals do not count towards anyone's score.
Answer when somebody names you. ARTup is open in both directions: another
account can record something that names you, just as you can name them. When
that happens you are told, and you decide. You can confirm it, and it stands.
You can dispute it, and it does not.
Settle a disagreement with evidence. When you dispute a mention, your answer
can carry a note and supporting documents, so the disagreement is grounded
rather than a silent deletion. Planned: a query attached to the entry that sets
it aside from your score until it is settled.
Get help filling it in. You do not have to type everything from scratch. A
CV you upload can be read by BART and turned into suggested entries. They are
only suggestions: nothing is added to your record, and nothing affects your
score, until you confirm them. Material already published about artists in
public art databases and museum collections can also be looked up as a starting
point.
Pick from lists that can change. Where a form uses a platform list, for
example the type of an exhibition (private, public, online), the options come
from an editable list kept on the platform rather than fixed in the software.
Platform administrators can add or rename an option, and it appears the next
time the page loads, without any update on your side. See
User-Defined Enumerations for the
technical description.
Hear about contradictions. When a document you upload says something
different from what is already on your record, BART shows you a warning on the
entry. A difference in formatting alone is not treated as a contradiction.
Warnings are only warnings: they do not change anything by themselves.
Before the time stamp, warnings only. As long as you have not time-stamped
the data you entered, a contradiction is only a warning. You can leave it,
correct your entry, or, from the warning, say the two records are different
things or open a dispute (only when another user is involved).
Fixing makes the warning disappear. When you correct the data and save, the
warning goes away by itself, both on the entry and on the document.
Time-stamping data that still contradicts your own. If you time-stamp data
that contradicts your other data, you get a notification with a link to edit
each of the records involved, so you can fix them.
Time-stamping data that contradicts another user's verified data. A dispute
is opened. Time-stamping is your own act, so the dispute is yours.
When BART matched two records that are actually different. BART sometimes
decides that two records describe the same thing, for instance because the
names are similar, when they are different (another place or date). In that
case you can say that they are different. Both records are then kept as
separate ones and the contradiction is closed. The other user is told, and can
open a dispute if they disagree. You cannot say this when you named the other
record yourself: then you edit your data or open a dispute.
The AI never opens a dispute. BART and its suggestions can warn you and
propose options, including leaving everything as it is, since the AI can be
wrong. A dispute is opened only by a person, through their own action.
Contradictions and your scores. A record in an open contradiction does not
count for your scores until the contradiction is fixed. Once you correct the
records and the contradiction closes, they count again. While a dispute is
open, both records involved, yours and the other user's, are left out of scores
until it is resolved.
Planned: BART writing your artist biography for you when it is still empty.
A history that other people have vouched for. An exhibition confirmed by the
gallery that held it is worth more than one only you have asserted, and the
platform treats it that way.