Flattened Art History: The Bandwidth Revolution and Artistic Innovation
SUN Tao
Abstract: Traditional art is grounded in the holistic structure of meaning within a society and its culture. Modern culture, by contrast, dissolves diverse meaning structures into homogenized symbolic elements, reassembling them within a theoretical narrative of “developmental history” — or even encourages “performative innovation” in an attempt to ease the tension between “order” and “freedom”. With the support of image and video media and algorithmic technologies, this recombinant innovation has become more convenient, yet it also faces greater challenges due to the rapid advancement of new technologies such as artificial intelligence. In the future, artistic innovation may need to adjust to a new direction: returning to lived experience and helping people reconstruct the meaning of life.
Key words: Artistic Innovation; Modern culture; Media; Bandwidth Revolution
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