Art in 2023: What Does the Future Hold for the Art World?
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Loading... - Auja Brunner
- 01 Mar 2023
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Another year in art has gone by. What will the future hold for those pushing forward the history of art and creativity in 2023?
Will the reality of art in 2023 be how smart phone technology and AI art killed a generation of artists who grew up without smart phone technology or AI art? I’m not talking about the generation that ALWAYS had smart phones, I’m talking about the generation that never had them. Will everything in 2023 be so dystopian? Have we finally run this train off a cliff?
This might date me but I remember rotary phones and I remember phone booths. I was sitting at West 4 subway in NYC one day in the 1990s - well I think it was during the day? It’s hard to tell because it’s never light or dark down there. But I was sitting there and I had just bought an answering machine and I was unboxing it and reading the instructions. Suddenly a deep voice from next to me said, 'NO ONE CAN GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS…ONLY GOD CAN GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS!!' It was a person dressed head to toe in newspapers, wrapped around the body for warmth. That’s one of the things I love about New York - how you come in direct contact with the reality of human intelligence and human suffering
.Around that time, a few tourists asked me for directions in NYC and I said “that way lies success” and “that way lies tragedy” - they weren’t very happy with my directions - but I had learned something from the answering machine incident. What I have learned is: I’m not here for your entertainment - I’m working on something important. Besides, many tourists get directions and walk the OPPOSITE direction - even after you tell them to take a certain route. I've never understood that. Read More..
