Technological advances have drastically changed the way we interact with, and consume art. The traditional white walls of the gallery have until recently kept the fine art world at a safe distance from the digital shift. However with projects like Paddles On hosting the first digital art auction, not only is digital art garnering more influence, it is also making advances into the fine art world.

Krystal South, a Portland based artist and writer has decided to use Kickstarter as a platform for artists to be seen and sold, effectively cutting the galleries out of the equation, much like how Bandcamp allows bands to sell their music direct to the people without a label's patronage. Exhibition Kickstarter is, in some respects, not really a Kickstarter project at all, it's an art project in and of itself, an exploration of the crowdsourcing model and and a new way to display digital art. South's intention is to bring artist's work to a wider audience and allow the creators means to support themselves. Having already reached her funding goal, South will commission eleven artists to create an artwork that will fit into the Kickstarter format. Each piece will come in editions of ten with 75% of the fee going back to the artist. The remaining 25% will contribute to the running of the Kickstarter campaign as well as funding the more traditional gallery show which will begin at Ditch Projects in Oregon on October 11th.

With contributors like Ryder Ripps (who we recently profiled) on board, it'll be an interesting shake-up of the usual models of art and another indicator of just how disruptive the internet is to the art world.