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Art and the
Ar t and the

future
future By Kenoya Musa

The invention of the camera bulldozed the

art community in the past and continues to

do so today. Why is that relevant? Because it

tells us where art is going in the future. I can

almost see Artificial Intelligence (AI) in my

peripheral vision looming over the art world

the same way the camera did in its earli-

er years. Now what did the camera do? In

short it made realism less and less relevant

and brought about the continued abstrac-

tion of art, or new creative ways to translate

the world around us onto a canvas or screen.

If you’ve ever taken an art history class you

would have seen that continued progres-

sion. The camera also has created the digi-

tization of art, you can easily snap a picture

of your painting and put it in a computer or

make art on the computer itself as well. This

has opened the door to digital art collection

and trading, I always thought usual art collec-

tors were so wild, I mean all that money and

all those valuable pieces as financial assets?

Now we can do that with crypto(digital) cur-

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