My long essay (or short book) “Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock. Art at the End of the Future” is now available on NERO as a beautifully designed webpage. You can read it online or download it as a 40 pages, ready to print pdf. "Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock" is an attempt to understand if, and how, art can exist in the present time. We know we are living an age that is profoundly different from that in which contemporary art was born: an age of acceleration, present shock, distracted gaze and end of the future. And yet, when it comes to art, we still confront it as if nothing had actually changed: as if it were the sacred result of moments of deep focus and concentration; as if it could still be experienced without distraction; as if it were the expression of a constant fight against the old, and of an endless rush towards the new; as if it could speak a universal language, and last forever. But it doesn’t.
Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock
Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock
Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock
My long essay (or short book) “Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock. Art at the End of the Future” is now available on NERO as a beautifully designed webpage. You can read it online or download it as a 40 pages, ready to print pdf. "Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock" is an attempt to understand if, and how, art can exist in the present time. We know we are living an age that is profoundly different from that in which contemporary art was born: an age of acceleration, present shock, distracted gaze and end of the future. And yet, when it comes to art, we still confront it as if nothing had actually changed: as if it were the sacred result of moments of deep focus and concentration; as if it could still be experienced without distraction; as if it were the expression of a constant fight against the old, and of an endless rush towards the new; as if it could speak a universal language, and last forever. But it doesn’t.