“Any art history student can tell you that art has long served as a record of the past, a mirror of our present, and—occasionally—even a crystal ball into the future.”
Some people define art as something which has been created by an expert artist. Other people define art as something which we all can create. Both definitions are true because it takes not only an artist but also a society affecting the artist to create the final product we call art. Today we love the digital universe, the virtual reality and the glamorous forms of art we see around us. It is fascinating to see how art has changed over the past few years and how it has taken a more complex and interesting form.
Can you imagine the art of 3030? Most probably not. Because it depends on several unpredictable factors such as rate of modernization, technological advancements, changes in the society, adaptations etc. of that time. But based on what we’ve seen over these years we can imagine what future art may look like. Futurism is one such example. Futurism was basically an artistic movement that began in Italy in 1909, which strongly rejected traditional forms and embraced the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovsky. Movements like Futirism that embrace futuristic art, help give a vague idea of what distant ages may create.
Based on today’s technology we can guess what art in future may look like. The electronic revolution, for one, may reach new heights. Today it’s limited to television, computers and holographs. We have electronic transmissions like “virtual reality” or “artificial reality.” It is a form of computerized reality that is being worked on by such groups as the Pentagon for human control of robots working in outer space. Art may become interactive. For example, doesn’t a painting require the eyes of the viewer to perceive the colors, lines, and shapes of the painting? This leads to many interactions of subatomic particles of light traveling between painting and viewer. The only reason for celebration of cultural activities may get limited to those who have scientific data to back them up. Technology may become the new god.
At some point we may look back and laugh at how much we used to spend on a single paintaing instead of accessing thousands of such paintains free of cost. Because then you may change the art on your wall from your phone, through an Internet-connected display, designed specifically for digital art. We may be able to display anything from the Internet: a selection of art as vast as the Internet itself.
It would be amazing to witness how much it will change and how advance will it become. More importantly, how will people accept it? Will the people of the future accept the modernization of their traditional roots or they will they reject it and hold on to what we all call ‘real’ art!
