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There are a few particular paths: - Tech democratizes an artform by allowing anyone to realize any idea - Tech disenfranchises artists by putting less efficie
by trynewideas 4y ago
There are a few particular paths:
- Tech democratizes an artform by allowing anyone to realize any idea
- Tech disenfranchises artists by putting less efficient human artisans, regardless of skill, out of business
- Tech results in the permanent loss of certain manual techniques as human artisans quit or die without apprentices, and documentation (if present) isn't sufficient to reproduce
- Without human artisans, tech limits the creation of art to those with access to the tech
- With access limited, tech turns the creation of art into a factor of class by allowing those with access to gatekeep it from those without
- Individuals within classes that lack access to the tech, and therefore to the artform, create new manual forms of art
- Novel new artforms excite and inspire non-artisans
- Non-artisans develop tech to bridge the gap
- Tech democratizes that artform...