This research was conducted to support the (fictional) Australian Radical Art Futures Council to explore how they can meet the challenges & opportunities that will emerge within the Future Visual Art Market (both digital & physical).

How might the future role and value of Visual Art be transformed in a post-digital world?

Understanding how we might think more critically about the emerging economic models and systems of value & legitimacy that the Digital Art World invites; and their implications for the future role and value of all Visual Art in the Post-Digital Age. For the purposes of clarity, I use the term’ post-digital’ to describe the period in which our intense historical fascination with all things digital has passed and we accept digital as being a core part of both society and the systems within it, rather than to describe some disenchantment or withdrawal from it.

Lines of Enquiry

How are systems of meaning and value being reshaped in the digital space?
How will the online merging of selling & critiquing shape our future ideas of the legitimacy of art?
How will the cultural context that is specific to the internet, change the way we think about collectable Art?
How are advancements in technology and digital platforms reshaping the role of the artist, enabling new forms of creative expression and expanding artistic boundaries?
If all art processes occur within a social and cultural context, how might the digital art space refocus the idea of art-making and production as a collective process? how does this impact the systems operating within the art world?
In what ways might we see the systemic issues operating within the Arts economy, as representative of the broader economy in general?

Three Possible Futures

Three Stories of (Post)Growth, Power, Art, Ecology and Activism

You can view the three futures narratives here

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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