Barnes Collection Online: Andrei Taraschuk and @the_barnes_bot

"Earlier in the week I posted about a drawing challenge that happened on Twitter as a result of our open access collection launch. Today, I’m interviewing Andrei Taraschuk who has created a Barnes collection bot on multiple channels — Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr — that anyone can follow. Seeing this kind of activity is such a big part of what we were trying to do by becoming more open. This is the kind of strategy that SMK Open has always cited — that “open” helps you become a platform and it’s about enabling others as collaborators. Andrei’s bots really demonstrate this concept and it was heartwarming to see this happen so quickly on the heels of our release."