Conducting artistic competitions in a social network system

Abstract

Tools, strategies, and techniques are provided for connecting an audience comprising artists of many different kinds with a wider audience of other users to engage in competitions, provide commentary, review communications, and perform other activities around works of art.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A social network system for conducting competitions between artists involving works of art associated with the artists, the system comprising:
 an electronic processor programmed for executing a function associated with at least one module;   an artist profile module programmed for:
 receiving, by the processor, a representation of at least one work of art, 
 receiving, by the processor, a selection of at least one work of art for a competition, and 
 receiving information regarding a genre associated with the work of art representation; 
   a battle module programmed for:
 communicating, by the processor, a challenge from a first artist profile to a second artist profile; 
 receiving, by the processor, an answer from the second artist profile to the challenge by the first artist profile, 
 when the challenge is accepted, initiating, by the processor, a competition between the selected work of art representation of the first artist profile and the selected work of art representation; and 
   an automation module programmed for:
 processing the initiated competitions into aggregated streams to be displayed to at least one voter, 
 receiving at least one communication from an analytical module, 
 executing at least one command in response to at least one data condition or triggering event, and 
 receiving, by the processor, at least one indication of preference from at least one voter regarding the first work of art representation and the second work of art representation. 
   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising the artist profile module programmed to limit access to artists producing original works of art. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising determining a winner of the competition between the first work of art representation and the second work of art representation in response to an indication of preference comprising a number of votes received from one or more voters. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising a scoring module programmed for calculating a score for at least one of the first artist profile or the second artist profile in response to the challenge by the first artist profile or an outcome of the competition. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , further comprising a ranking module programmed for determining a class or a ranking within a class for at least one artist profile in response to the calculated score and executing at least one game over rule in response to at least a portion of data stored within the social network system. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising an artistic intuition module programmed for calculating an artistic intuition score representing relationships between at least one voter indication of preference and an outcome of a competition. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising the battle module programmed for displaying at least one competition to a user at random from among all competitions currently running in the social network system. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising the battle module programmed for displaying at least one competition in response to a genre of a work of art. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising the battle module programmed for displaying at least one competition in response to a selected class of artist. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising a bulletin module programmed for displaying news associated with one or more competitions, works of art, artists, voters, or activities occurring within the social network system. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the bulletin module is further programmed for displaying news by at least one importance parameter, wherein the at least one importance parameter includes at least one of a class of artist, a number of voters voting in a battle, or a number of artist supporters. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising an analytical module programmed to collect, record, or analyze data associated with one or more transactions occurring within the social network system. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein at least a portion of the collected data are associated with user information. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising an advertising and sales communication module programmed for monitoring at least one transaction occurring within the social network system and for communicating advertising content in accordance with monitoring the transaction. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 14 , further comprising the advertising and sales communication module programmed for communicating tailored advertising content in response to at least a portion of user information collected in the social network system. 
     
     
         16 . A method for conducting competitions between artists involving works of art associated with the artists, the method comprising:
 receiving, by an electronic processor, a representation of at least one work of art of a first artist profile;   receiving, by an electronic processor, a representation of at least one work of art of a second artist profile;   receiving, by the processor, a selection of at least one work of art for a competition;   communicating, by the processor, a challenge from the first artist profile to the second artist profile;   receiving, by the processor, an answer from the second artist profile to the challenge by the first artist profile;   when the challenge is accepted, initiating, by the processor, a competition between the selected work of art representation of the first artist profile and the selected work of art representation of the second artist profile; and   receiving, by the processor, at least one indication of preference from at least one voter regarding the first work of art representation and the second work of art representation.   
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising determining a winner of the competition between the first work of art representation and the second work of art representation in response to an indication of preference comprising a number of votes received from one or more voters. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising calculating a score for at least one of the first artist profile or the second artist profile in response to the challenge by the first artist profile or an outcome of the competition. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 18 , further comprising determining a class or a ranking within a class for at least one artist profile in response to the calculated score and executing at least one game over rule in response to at least a portion of data stored within the social network system. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 16 , further comprising representations of relationships between at least one voter indication of preference and an outcome of a competition as an artistic intuition score.