From Artefact of Art to Artistic Service. The Conceptualisation of Interactions of Modern Art with New Economy and Internet Activism

Abstract

The beginning of the 21st century is being defined by new politics, the new economy, the information society, techno sciences, multiculturalism, globalisation and new lifestyles, all of which have some impact on art. Art is beginning to omit the nature of the stable artefact as well as the traditional functions of representation and embellishment and is becoming post-aesthetical and process-like. Because the key feature of the finished and stable artwork is not as important as it used to be, the ontological question of what art is has also become an issue of no great importance. Instead, relation questions regarding the interaction between art and techno-sciences, new technologies, the new economy and the new politics have arisen. The key concern of this essay is the highlighting of the cultural turns which have, in these days of the Internet, techno-sciences, the new economy and globalisation, influenced the new concepts and placements of contemporary art and digital textuality. Art 3.5 (a technical term used for the contemporary art of processes, installations, computer games, events, artistic communications, performances and art worlds) is placed in life in reality version 6.1 (another technical term), which has also mutated and undergone many changes. From the author's point of view the changes in the art field derive from the parallel changes in art's subsystem of reality 6.1. Therefore, one can determine in reality at the beginning of the 21st century that even technosciences, new technologies, the new means of communication, the new politics and new economy have, in a way, become artistic.