FictionCity

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FictionCity is a social networking service created in 2009. The service is designed to help artists to share their work to the world through a multimedia portfolio, and allow companies to hire and promote artists, whether they are photographers, painters, musicians, novelists, sculptors or any of the nine disciplines of art and creative work the platform is segmented.

FictionCity is a Geosocial Network. The platform integrates geolocation tools allowing users to connect and coordinate with local people, ateliers or events that match their interests. The website is translated into twelve languages.

The company was founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it is headquartered. It also has offices in San Pablo, Santiago de Chile, Miami, Mexico City and Barcelona.

FictionCity, launched on 3 January 2011, was created by computer engineer, Argentine Pestrin Silvio Farina, who was a systems engineer for Patagon.com, the first global virtual bank, in the late 1990s. Farina and a team of 15 other artists and technologists designed and developed the network over the course of 14 months. The company was reportedly created with an initial investment of $1 million dollars and just three months later was already worth $18 million dollars.

The network is free for artists and companies who want to connect with the artists.