DrEvil » Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:02 pm wrote:Early stages of a slow singularity.
More and more of our world is in the digital domain, which means it's invisible until you go look for it.
There's tons of "culture" being created all around us all the time, but we can't see it any more. No grand buildings to house the new library, just an extra server rack in some basement, no gallery exhibitions for young artists, just a profile on Deviantart, etc.
Looking at the early twenty-somethings today feels like looking at aliens sometimes. They're the first people who grew up with online being the norm.
I passionately dissent. In our city, where modern graffiti as a conscious effort was born, there are some young artists pushing radical boundaries. TEXAS, a woman, and GANE, two young graffiti artists, have been doing massive-scale, multi-story pieces done with paint rollers, made to look like handstyles (single-line spraycan signatures). As far as I or anyone else with the institutional knowledge is aware, this is the first time it's ever been done. The work is consistent, and not only that, but done in two or three colors. They aren't the only ones in the graffiti world doing incredible stuff, it's just probably the second-biggest art news in my city (the first being the defacement and subsequent restoration of the ESPO mural done for Kurt Vile.
Street art is radical, and is having a profound impact on the broader art world. The only thing is that graffiti, as a reflection of broader socioeconomic realities, is advancing much faster and much wider than mainstream art, and is both fostering anti-authoritarian spirit amongst young creative types while becoming even more countercultural.
I might be biased because one of my friends, whose background was street art, just got a piece into the permanent collection at the MOMA.
The Rich and the Corporate remain in their hundred-year fever visions of Bolsheviks taking their stuff - JackRiddler
