A New Age of Art

Art of 2010…
In this ever shrinking world, in the age of communication and easily accessible knowledge that lays at our fingertips it is hard to think that the art of 2010 is not going to become vastly technical but I hope for it. The art of 2010 lies in the hands of the ones taking this class and classes like it all over the world. I can only speak for myself and say that this constant bombarding of technology, of blogging, of tweeting, and facebooking, has urged me as an artist to visit something simpler perhaps a return to something more primal or revisit the past in a new way, discover what it means to be human now and in this age... If I had to give this new and or approaching age of art a name I would call it Neo-Nature Technological overload: A discovery of humanity… again. Maybe that is a bit lengthy for a new age title. I can’t see that on the title of a book anywhere anytime soon… I will work on something better but until then that is what I am going to stick with. I think it started in the late 90’s just as the Y2K scare threatened us with total technological apocalypse. Technology is suppose to make life simpler but instead as one new convenience comes along that simplifies one aspect of life, we fill that empty time slot with another task and then another and pretty soon we are so deeply buried under a mountain of obligation we don’t have time to just breath.
I think this movement is going to have many of the same principles as the Junk Artists and Land Artists of the 1970’s. Also, I think the green movement and the environmentalist movements that have become so popular with artists like: Andy Goldsworthy, Nils-Udo, and Chris Jordan are going to play a large role in the direction of this new artistic paradigm. Who knows, maybe individuals that are non-artists with anthropological background will have their ideas echoed through sculpture and prints. You can already hear some of these echoes in photography as anthropology pulls more and more art forms into its arena of influence in order to spread the word about humanities fascinating nuances. Only time can tell the direction of shifting paradigms. As far as I am concerned the tides are turning.