See.me


See.me was an American web-based arts organization originally based in Long Island City, Queens, in New York City. The SeeMe website features emerging artists and SeeMe hosts photography competitions and exhibitions throughout the year.

Description

Organization

See.me specializes in providing online profiles that creatives can use to display, promote, and gain support for their work. The site caters to artists, photographers, musicians, designers and creative enthusiasts. Users are encouraged to share their work and show support for fellow creatives in order to gain traction for competition entries. See.me does not represent specified artists, and competition winners are shown in a digital slide show in Long Island City.
The organization runs a number of annual competitions offering cash prizes. These are typically gallery shows, magazine spreads, and grants. See.me’s business model is a mixture of free and paid services; paid services are accompanied by additional perks and benefits. Most competitions are presided over by a chosen panel of renowned judges, though select awards are given to artists whose work receives the most votes submitted online. See.me is considered a pioneer of arts-focused social media.
In October 2012 See.me released a mobile app allowing users to access and edit their portfolios on the go.

Website

See.me offers online profiles and competition entry pages.

Competitions

Regular annual competitions include ‘Art Takes Miami’, ‘Self’, ‘Year in Review’, ‘One Life’ and ‘Exposure’.
One-off competitions include ‘This Urgent Moment’, ‘Art Vs. Design’, ‘Art Takes London’ and ‘Art Takes Times Square’.

Art Takes Times Square

In 2012, See.me teamed up with chashama and the Times Square Alliance to host 'Art Takes Times Square'. The competition's grand prize winner, Vicki DaSilva, had her chosen work, 'Jasmine/Never Sorry ' shown on several Times Square billboards from the unveiling event on June 18 through to July 31, 2012.
Around 5000 competition participants had their work shown on specially erected digital billboards at the June 18th event. In total, 35,000 artists entered the competition. Several news outlets including the New York Times, ABC and NY1 covered the event.

Grand Prize winners