How Emerging Technologies Affect the Art Industry - GrossumUA/Wiki GitHub Wiki

Without a doubt, technologies keep invading our lives at all levels. Today’s hot topic is how extraordinarily technologies have influenced the way art is created, distributed and appreciated. This is not only about artists using a number of digital tools to create some absolutely amazing and innovative pieces, but also museums and galleries promote and exhibit their collections with the help of automated and Internet instruments. Today’s topic is how technologies affect the world of art as we know it. Important - this influence can be analyzed from different angles and aspects:

• The way objects of art used to be created vs how contemporary art pieces are;
• Forms of broadcasting/exhibiting/selling the art nowadays vs long-ago;
• Current ways of art consumption vs earlier ones.

New Forms of Arts Creation

Emerging technologies have definitely made the impact here and now pieces can be brought into being in all ways you can imagine... and even more.

Robots are being set to make drawings, some volumetric compositions are reproduced with 3D printers, PhotoShop and a lot more art apps for PC used to polish digital artworks, art drawing apps allowing to create art even on the go from your mobile device. Sounds limitless and inspiring indeed.

At the same time, an old-school oil on canvas techniques is getting quite shadowed lately. It doesn’t sound to me like a true snowfall to classically trained artists though and for a good number of reasons:

• first, most people don’t consider art a business, even though painters still sell their pieces to simply make up the living;
• for those who consider it a business and still remain an adept of classic art, those objects will get even more valuable with time as contemporary arts will capture our lives - so there is still a considerable demand for that;
• and finally, one-day classic physical canvas paintings and artists will become sort of an astonishing attraction. And all astonishing attractions are costly, aren’t they?

So probably, the question here is not that academic art is living its’ last years, but that it’s transforming into something different, unconventional type of art for new coming generations. And that’s absolutely normal, that’s how everything works in this fast-changing world.

The Variety of Channels for Arts Broadcasting

This one has also changed dramatically and by all means, serves all sorts and kinds of arts in the best way possible. No need for paper pamphlets and people distributing those, just launch a Google or Facebook advertising campaign online and you’ll be surely recognized. online galleries, exhibitions and auctions like Art.sy, Google Arts & Culture, Amazon Art or Artsicle provide a variety of art experience right from your couch.

According to the various surveys about the role of technologies in the transformation of how arts institutions work, the internet makes it possible now for many galleries and museums to market themselves much more efficiently through numerous tools that became available due to technologies development. It also offers many opportunities for the cultural institutions to increase revenue by utilizing technologies effectively.

What’s more, social media word of a mouth and content sharing, various blogs, and online communities make arts easy-accessible to the vast audiences, so that sounds like a total win-win to the entire art space.

Appreciating Arts Becomes More Engaging

Of course, as the art objects and concepts of the performances keep changing, the ways we consume those develop too. And these tools are quite handy and remarkable indeed. First and foremost, art apps and museum apps - the mobile software created the various galleries and other collective art organizations to serve as a guide in this world of craftsmanship. Use your VR headset to walk through the museum or simple headphones to follow the story. That’s almost as you’d be there, in reality, taking a tour around the exhibition, but in fact, you’re simply sitting in your chair. Magnificent! More than that, quite a significant app development cost here is totally justified because memberships for museums and exhibitions attendance can be on the costly side.

Also, technologies and digital tools become the actual parts of art pieces and performances. 3D printers produce diverse shapes in real time, robots and computer software paint on the walls, screens communicate with the visitors - all this good stuff has become the art of future.

That wraps up this reflection on the topic of emerging technologies influencing all things art. How it’s going to change the cultural environment? Decidedly, this is and going to continue to be very notable change with some sorts of art going up in preference, and others becoming something exotic and niche sort of things. Nowadays arts has plenty room for everyone - no matter if you use charcoal, paper, and brushes or recycled waste to create another artistry.