Time for a New Artistic Movement

[antigop]

They were once engines that helped to power the culture, but we haven’t had a major one in 30 years.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/time-for-a-new-artistic-movement-1419451176

Amid all the cultural changes surrounding us every day, one of the most consequential has gone entirely unnoticed. We have not had a major artistic movement, in literature or art, for something like 30 years, not since the various offspring of postmodernism blew themselves out in the early 1980s.

Artistic movements were once engines that helped to power the culture and to shape the way that people looked at reality. In the present moment, when so much of our public life is simultaneously polarized and murky, it is striking to remember how an artistic movement could clarify the world around it, project the image of alternate possibilities and challenge artists and their audiences to apply their imaginations to grand new projects.

[appalachiablue]

1. There is a lot of talent going into tech, reality show TV and tech media in H.wood obviously.

I've also wondered about the absence of writers, visual artists, dance groups and playwrights these days but that could just be me. There are some excellent films and motion pictures I notice but not what I'd call a movement. Popular pieces like The Hunger Games, JK Rowlings Harry Potter series and Game of Thrones are doing well. I wasn't able to read the WSJ article link above since I'm not a subscriber.

[ActiveTen28]

2. I saw Jason Silva's video on remix today

Silva on remix:

Some of my favorite remixers are:

Pogo: https://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

DJ Steve Porter: https://www.youtube.com/user/djsteveporter

Diran Lyons: https://www.youtube.com/user/DiranLyons

Elisa Kreisinger: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElisaKreisinger

Jonathan McIntosh: https://www.youtube.com/user/rebelliouspixels

Hugh Atkin: https://www.youtube.com/user/hmatkin

[glinda]

4. I think Art will only survive when it realizes how important it is

in the crisis we are in today and uses it to propel change. It has the power to do so. I see shallow work falling by the wayside more and more. Times they are a changing'.