Managing digital documentation of your work can be tedious work. Should you organise files and folders according to date, or topic, or client? And how do you find all those best bits when it's time to put together a portfolio?
Kleio was born as a solution to these problems. "By artists for artists", it is the brainchild of Anina Schenker, who started working on the project back in 2007. With extensive experience in the area of local digital archives for cultural institutions, she realised the need for a simple, affordable, offsite solution for the individual. A place to store raw digital assets together with edits and derivates, organise them according to multiple structures, and share selections with clients or the public. Naturally we were very excited to be asked to join the family a few years ago, and help develop this idea further.
Over the last decade kleio has evolved through various iterations, and today it's at its most streamlined, clean yet powerful. Upload unlimited amounts of assets with detailed metadata, create custom tags and collections, and share these collections either publicly via your kleio profile, or via specific URLs that can be password protected, and expire when you want them to.
In addition to custom tags and metadata, it's also possible to link specific works to other people, institutions, exhibitions or publications. Many of these will already be members of kleio, and those who aren't you'll be able to invite to join. This creates a network of sorts. Ultimately, our aim is to harness this network in visualisations and tools to both give the outsider new insight, and the insider new possibilities.
*In collaboration with: Anina Schenker, Fabrice Tereszkiewicz and Sascha Galley
