1) IONEEC is a platform that allows artists to promote and discover art through weekly competitions where artists can submit artwork and vote on others' submissions. The artist with the most votes wins. 2) To participate, artists add samples to their account, make a deposit to fund participation, and submit samples to competitions in different categories and media. They can then vote on other artists' submissions. 3) Results are displayed with rankings showing the winning artists and their earnings. Artists can then manage their earnings by cashing out or transferring amounts to fund further participation.

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How to Stimulate Your Art?
1. Introduction
2. Add Samples to IONEEC
3. Make a Deposit
4. Submit Samples to IONEEC Stimulator
5. Vote for the best Artwork
6. View results & Ranks
7. Cash Earnings
By Serge Ayissi
27th
of January 2016
Version 1

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1) Introduction
IONEEC is a platform that gives the artists the opportunity to control
their promotion. Stimulating the Art is an efficient way to discover
weekly outstanding artwork as it is based on competitiveness. It is also
a tool that helps discover artworks and artists that suffer media
coverage. Artists are given the chance to generate an activity in a
specific Genre by comparing the artwork weekly. The concept is based
on votes, 1: only artists can participate to the competition and, 2: only
artist submitting artwork to the competition can vote, 3: artists
submitting samples to the competition cannot vote his own artwork. An
artist is allowed to give out 3 votes per competing artwork! All the
artists are subject to the same rule. Finally the artwork receiving the
most votes wins the competition.
2) Add Samples to IONEEC
There are 2 main different ways to add samples to IONEEC; one of them
is from “MyIONEEC” (General Activity or Sample List) and the other one
from “Settings”. These samples can be of 4 different types which are
Video, Audio, Image and Text. These sample types are taken care of by
multiple APIs that allows their display on external websites. Most
common APIs for embedding content to a website are Youtube,
Soundcloud, Flickr and SlideShare displaying respectively Video, Audio,
Image and Text content.

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 From MyIONEEC:
Users can add Samples to their account from “General Activity” on the
top of the MyIONEEC page. The number of Samples is displayed and an
“Add” button on the right hand side of it is available. Figure 1 shows
where this “Add” button is located with a red arrow. Click on that
button to access directly the “Add Samples” page that allows you to
make all kinds of possible samples additions from Video, Audio, Image
or Text types.
Figure 1: Adding a sample from MyIONEEC – General Activity.
Click on the “Add” icon next to Samples number.
It is also possible to add samples from “Sample List”. Below the window
dedicated to the list of samples, a form field allows the user to
specifically choose which type of sample the user wishes to add. Figure
2 shows where this form is located with a red arrow. Select the “Sample
Type: API” combination corresponding to the sample you wish to add to
your IONEEC account (for example “Video Sample: YouTube”). Once
this is done click “GO”. This action will lead you directly to the right

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form corresponding to your choice of sample addition. If you do not
select any “Sample Type: API” and still click “GO”, that action will lead
you to the “Add a Sample” main page.
Figure 2: Adding a sample from MyIONEEC – Sample List. Select a Sample Type next to
the “Add A New Sample” field below the Sample List and then Click on “GO”.
 From Settings:
Users can also reach the “Add A Sample” page through “Settings”.
Figure 3 shows how the “Settings” page can be accessed from the top
of the IONEEC website with a red arrow. Click on “Settings” and then
another red arrow shows how to reach the “Add A Sample” page. From
there, a selection of actions is offered to add new samples, to edit
those samples or to view the complete list of samples already added.
Click on the type of sample you wish to add to your IONEEC account
and follow the instructions corresponding to the respective API.

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Figure 3: Adding a sample from Settings. Select “Settings” from the top menu bar and
click on “Add A Sample”. From there choose the type of Samples you wish to add.
3) Make a Deposit
There are 2 main different ways to make a deposit to your IONEEC
account, one of them is from “MyIONEEC” (General Activity) and the
other one from “Settings”. IONEEC users can credit their account from
$5 USD to $100 USD. All transactions are made through Paypal, no
credit card information is shared on IONEEC website.
 From MyIONEEC:
To make a deposit to your account, go to “General Activity” on the top
of the MyIONEEC page. The number of Samples is displayed, an “Add”
button on the right hand side of it is available. Figure 4 shows where
this “Add” button is located with a red arrow. Click on that button to

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access directly the “Make a Deposit” page that allows you to credit your
IONEEC account with small deposit via Paypal.
Figure 4: Making a deposit from MyIONEEC – General Activity.
Click on the “Add” icon next to the Deposit value.
 From Settings:
It is also possible to reach the “Make A Deposit” page through
“Settings”. Figure 5 shows how the “Settings” page can be accessed
from the top of the IONEEC website with a red arrow. Click on
“Settings” and then another red arrow shows how to reach the “Make a
Deposit” page. From there, a selection of actions is offered to credit
your account; you can add $5USD, $10USD, $25USD, $50USD or
$100USD. Click on the Paypal link that shows up once you choose the
amount of deposit, and follow the instructions on the Paypal website.

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Figure 5: Make a deposit from Settings. Select “Settings” from the top menu bar and
click on “Make a deposit”. From there choose the amount of deposit you wish to credit your IONEEC
account.
4) Submit Samples to the Stimulator
 From MyIONEEC:
To submit samples to the stimulator, go to “General Activity” on the
top of the MyIONEEC page. The number of stimulating samples is
displayed and an “Add” button on the right hand side of it is available.
Figure 6 shows where this “Add” button is located with a red arrow.
Click on that button to access directly the “Stimulate A Sample” page
that allows you to submit your samples in many different categories

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with respect to the type of sample you have already added to your
account.
Figure 6: Submit samples to the stimulator from MyIONEEC – General Activity.
Click on the “Add” icon next to the Stimulating Samples.
 From Settings:
It is also possible to reach the “Stimulate A Sample” page through
“Settings”. Figure 7 shows how the “Settings” page can be accessed
from the top of the IONEEC website with a red arrow. Click on
“Settings” and then another red arrow shows how to reach the
“Stimulate A Sample” page. From there, a selection of actions is offered
to submit your samples to the stimulator. You can “Stimulate One
Sample” in one category, “Stimulate Multiple Samples” in one Category
or “Stimulate One sample in Multiple Categories”. You can also choose
the date for when the competition starts.

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Figure 7: Submit samples to the stimulator from Settings. Select “Settings” from the top menu bar and
click on “Stimulate A Sample”. From there choose the number of samples you wish to submit.
5) Vote for the Best Artwork
The stimulation competition creates windows of 16 samples for every
artist having submitted samples in order to allow all competitors to
View/Listen/Read the other samples and vote. To being able to create
that environment, we create a multi sample players environment.
Figure 8 shows how a Soundcloud multiplayer competition window
looks like. Each artist in competition is free to listen to other samples by
clicking on the “Play” button. Once an artist has made his opinion, he
can submit a vote right below the samples’ Soundcloud player window
as shown on Figure 8 by the red arrow. However the second red arrow
shows that an artist cannot vote for his own artwork! The competition
is only fair if the votes are given to other artwork while other artists

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may vote for this artist’s sample at the same time. The samples that
receive the most votes are considered the winner of that 16-sample
selection in their respective category.
Figure 8: Soundcloud multiplayer window allows to view the artwork and vote.
No own vote is allowed for the fairness of the competition

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6) View Results & Ranks
Once all the votes are submitted or the deadline for submitting votes is
over, the stimulation results are displayed. At the bottom of the
IONEEC page, in “Stimulation”, click on “View Latest Results” and
choose the category and the date corresponding to the results you wish
to see. This “Stimulation Result” page is divided in two parts as shown
on Figure 9 with the two red arrows. The first part shows the details of
the competition, the week, the circle (16 samples), the category, the
type, the pool (money involved) and the status. The second red arrow
shows the rank of the artwork with respect to the number of votes
received. The corresponding artist, the previous rank of the artist, the
earnings and the number of votes can also be seen in the ranking table.
Figure 9: Stimulatin Result display for the Week 37 in the Audio/Music/Electronic category.
The voting process is final and a ranking table shows the result.

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7) Manage Earnings
 From MyIONEEC:
Manage your earnings from “General Activity” on the top of the
MyIONEEC page. The amount of earnings is displayed, an “Add” button
on the right hand side of it is available. Figure 10 shows where this
“Add” button is located with a red arrow. Click on that button to access
directly the “Manage Earnings” page that allows you to cash your
earnings or to transfer part of the earnings amount to the deposit. Only
the deposit amount can be used to stimulate samples.
Figure 10: Manage your earnings from MyIONEEC – General Activity.
Click on the “Add” icon next to Earning[USD].
 From Settings:
It is also possible to reach the “Manage Earnings” page through
“Settings”. Figure 11 shows how the “Settings” page can be accessed
from the top of the IONEEC website with a red arrow. Click on
“Settings” and then another red arrow shows how to reach the

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“Manage Earnings” page. From there, a selection of actions is offered
to manage you’re the earnings gained from stimulating the Art. You can
“Transfer Earnings to Deposit” which enables you to stimulate
additional samples, or you can also “Cash Your Earnings via Paypal
Account”.
Figure 11: Manage your earnings from Settings. Select “Settings” from the top menu bar and
click on “Manage Earnings”. From there choose to cash your earnings or to transfer them to Deposit.