“I go right up to the edge, peer over and then come back with stories of what I’ve seen.”

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£5 per month – gets you a link and a public thank you on the social networking site of your choice, plus the warm glow of knowing that you’re supporting Social Art. Oh, and acknowledgement when I see you next – shoulder squeeze for the gals, manly shoulder punch for the guys.

£10 per month – as £5 PLUS a postcard from me saying thank you and an invitation to an annual party for other tenner friends

£20 per month – as £10 PLUS a postcard-sized piece of original art from me twice a year and an invitation to a special summer picnic and a mid-winter feast

£50 per month – as £20 PLUS a copy of Tuttle Chronicles – a new quarterly publication for such special friends and a quarterly meetup with sparkling conversation.

If you don’t know what this is about, read on…

Since 2004 I’ve been breaking new ground in what I now call “social art” but which includes social media and online social networking as well as all sorts of other “social” activities.

Breaking new ground – Groundbreaking – it’s what I love to do. The work I’ve done has been outsourced, unpaid, uncredited R&D for media industries. For example, five years ago, many people looked at me oddly when I told them I was podcasting. I don’t think it makes me better than anyone, just a little different from most.

I’m happy to do it, I will keep doing it regardless, it’s one of the things that most interests me – and by the time the real developers have understood a subject, I’ve usually moved onto something else. I don’t want a job and I don’t need the credit but the “unpaid” bit can make my life more difficult than it needs to be.

This isn’t a new area for artists – we’ve always needed support to help play with ideas before it was actually needed – to experiment and explore. My residency at the Centre for Creative Collaboration is a form of patronage. They are supporting my exploration of social art because they see the mutual benefit in doing so.

I know though that there are others who see benefit for themselves in supporting my work but not to the extent that they’d like to pay for the privilege of having me hanging around them one day a week.

It’s for these people that I’ve created this micropatronage scheme. For the commitment of a small contribution each month, you get privileged access to my work and other goodies too.