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If social media is where the masses hang out, then it won't be where the avant-garde is. You're going to have to look for it and it's probably not something you

If social media is where the masses hang out, then it won't be where the avant-garde is. You're going to have to look for it and it's probably not something you're going to just run into while scrolling on your phone. We're past the "Google was awesome and actually found what you searched for" trend of the 2000's, and the social media oversharing trend of the 2010's. So increasingly there's stuff happening but you're not going immediately run into it on Facebook, Tiktok, etc. or even a Google search. > Discovering good artists in the old days was a very difficult endeavor. > Fast-forward to the 2020s, and the artistic community has been largely disintermediated. You had art forums before Facebook, but just because you could join, view art and possibly even post it, didn't mean you were in any elitist circle of artists. But it did seem like all kinds of weird stuff was easier to find when Google search was worth a damn, e.g. you could literally type in what you wanted and it would come up, but phone apps and web apps have made things like Discord forums the place where that stuff happens now.

gibbitz 1y ago
The gallery scene is still a thing, but even it suffers from capitalist enshitification as Art has shifted from the signifier of taste to a place to keep your money where it can't be taxed. Making the art world more of a stock market than a laboratory. On thing I find interesting in all of this is the nearly complete avoidance of the viewer's role in Art. That removing taste, deadening the palate of the viewer through political alienation of the educated class where taste is fostered has largely allowed this to happen. Art made for artists is Art made for viewers with taste. Why can't everyone be taught to understand Art. Media literacy is how our culture can grow, but it has been defunded for decades.

gibbitz 1y ago

The gallery scene is still a thing, but even it suffers from capitalist enshitification as Art has shifted from the signifier of taste to a place to keep your money where it can't be taxed. Making the art world more of a stock market than a laboratory. On thing I find interesting in all of this is the nearly complete avoidance of the viewer's role in Art. That removing taste, deadening the palate of the viewer through political alienation of the educated class where taste is fostered has largely allowed this to happen. Art made for artists is Art made for viewers with taste. Why can't everyone be taught to understand Art. Media literacy is how our culture can grow, but it has been defunded for decades.