In this section I picked up mostly on the beginning statement about technology in the artistic culture.
The book says that electronic arts are slowly beginning to be pulled into the mainstream, but I still feel that such a movement is moving too slowly.
It would be fantastic if in ten years contemporary art galleries and museums were everywhere, but I feel as if it just won't happen.
I would love to live in a time where the electronic medium is widespread, but have the feeling that in most cases it's too far "out there" from what people expect art to be to be accepted in the masses.
Artists are in part to blame, stereotypes come to exist originally from a distorted truth. If artists create landscapes and portraits as realistically as possible a thousand times, people are going to expect it.
With the often slow-changing perceptions of society towards a creative movement and the stereotypes artists are forced under, I fear it will be past even my time before new medium artwork is truly accepted as mainstream.
(Though isn't part of being an artist going against the flow? In which case the entire desire of artists for contemporary artwork to be mainstream becomes flawed.)
In closing I want to say there is nothing wrong with the traditional mediums and techniques, I admire them. But I feel it places the artistic mind in such a narrow confine.
The artistic class has unlimited potential to change the way the world sees things, so it seems a shame to pretend that the world is the same as it has been for hundreds of years (with classic subjects such as scenery and portraits).
Hopefully I'm wrong and society proves to be more forward thinking than I anticipate. I'd like nothing more than to be a elderly guy walking through a museum and seeing some modern artwork with some real depth on the walls rather than another portrait of a cattle.
-Thomas
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