The Future of Art in a Post-Digital World

01 Preferred Future

Designing Tomorrow: The Rise of the Urban Imagineers

Art is infrastructure for the imagination. It is free; a civic right that cannot be sold. For the first time ever, art truly is priceless.

02 Disowned Future

READYMADE : Welcome to the (SM)ART Factory

In Capitalium there is no such thing as priceless art. Every piece of art has a price. Each artist also.

03 Integrated Future

The Regenerative Renaissance

All systems seek balance, whether you like it or not. But no matter how balanced the ledger, there will always be those who seek to put themselves first.

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The Futures of Art in a Post-digital World

This post forms part of a much larger project around 'Post-digital Art Futures', further posts can be viewed below:

1. Exploring the Digital Art EcoSystem : How might the future role and value of Visual Art be transformed in a post-digital world?

2. Critical Tensions and Transformations Emerging within the Digital Art EcoSystem : Will a crypto-based art economy ever fulfil its promise of emancipation from the historical systems of access, power and value?

3. A Hypothesis of Change : Exploring potential forces of change shaping emergent futures within the art ecosystem

4. A New Social Operating System : What role might art play in our ability to imagine alternative positive human futures?

5. Possible Art Futures : Three Stories of (Post) Growth, power, Art, Ecology and Activism
   You can view the extended versions of the three alternate futures narratives here

6. Civic Imagination : Transforming Governance for a Connected Future - speculative designs