When You Think Art, What comes to mind? Dali? Picasso? Rembrandt?

When you think technology, you will most likely envision a smart device or a computer system. Throughout human history, technology has always supplied artists with brand-new tools to express themselves. It’s no different today. These 2 relatively distinct disciplines are interlinked more than ever, with innovation being a fundamental force in the development and evolution of art.

The world over, individuals are crafting our future. The internet, digital security fabrication, biotech, nanotech, self-modification, augmented reality, virtual reality or as it is sometimes called “the singularity”, all of this is changing our our view of the world, live and more importantly, ourselves. It’s not only researchers, software designers, inventors of new gadgets such as smartphones , and tablets  business owners but it’s also conventional artists, visual artists, designers and film-makers, they are all busy developing brand-new human experiences for us to be part of. So it’s thanks to them, that not just conventional art is being made, but completely new art types are being developed also. What is considered as art is ending up being less and less fixed, taking up lots of new various shapes. These include printing digitally produced sculptures in 3D, flash-mobs to professional photographers lining up numerous naked volunteers on the beach.

The Power of the World Wide Web

The rules of the art game arechanging rapidly even as we write this.

The beginning of the postmodern art age, approximately from the 1860s, the most prominent players like the artists, museum curators, art critics, art promoters and specifically, influential gallery owners – have traditionally had the power and influence to dictate the behavior of the entire art world.

But modern methods by which art is produced, marketed, protected and supported have shifted as a direct response of the world’s shift to a socially linked, digital society – to the age of the internet.

They way it was done in the past is artists were going to a gallery with their portfolio, and if the gallery liked the work, they either bought or displayed in their gallery for some art buyer to purchase the piece. But now, they turn to the web to show their work and to sell it, too. With brand-new technology such as crowdfunding, for the very first time artists have the ability to raise money online to pursue their concepts.

Is this still ‘art’? It all depends on your idea of what art really is. However, any modern-day artist needs to keep in mind about pressing the art forward, developing, specifying new paradigms of expression with effective meanings.

It has to do with the experience the artist delivers to the public – whether it is provocative, whether it alters how the audience believes, feels and views the world no matter which forum he decides to display it to art lovers everywhere.