Modern Day Dependancy on the World Wide Web

(By: Kensington Market Art sign From: seemsartless.com)

To what extent does the modern internet/information age affect creativity and innovation? In this blog post I will be looking at this question and it relationship with young creative individuals that are possibly being affected by dependancy of the internet. 

As many would agree with I feel as if there is a huge dependancy on computers as far as intelligence goes. We google anything and we have a limitless bank of knowledge right at our fingertips. Does this translate over to the creative side of things? Is there any more original thought or is everything an interpretation of something already seen? Many ideas can be found to be repeated time and time again on the internet and art seems to be no exception. The expression of artists can be found coped, similar and completely plagiarized to pre-existing work and most times by no fault of their own. 

Probably the most "in the news" examples of this occurs in the new emerging street art community. It happens to be an art form in which little work can be done in order to create a desired outcome. Marilyn Monroes' hair on Michael Jackson's' face, is one of the many re-workings of her hair on different subjects; all the while being done by many different artists. Could this be classified as inspiration or blatantly stealing ones idea? Well which ever it true it just verifies the fact that there seems to be a merger between the art world and the accessibility of information.

I happen to be on the side of the fence which sees this as a benefit to the art world and creative globalization. I think that the sharing of information is essential to the natural progression of anything. If there is to be new and creative ideas there need to be people sharing their crafty creations to the masses in order for ideas to evolve. Not only can new and better ideas become readably available to the average artist but, in this age they may have the ability to be discovered in a somewhat of a crowded community. To me these benefits completely out way the cons and the time of idea sharing is just beginning. The possibilities are endless and it gets me excited thinking of what we should be anticipating for the future as an art community. 

Thanks for reading,

David