Low Art vs High Art, [A Paradigm Shift in action]

Contemporary art is experiencing growing pains. The established dynamic is being challenged by today's changing cultural technototems spurred on by the unapologetically democratic, universal leveler, the Internet. Shakespeare's famous line"All the worlds' a stage" has come to represent today's reality. An individual's values figure more prominently. Voices once excluded are now emancipated whether for the better is not relevant. That these opinions directly effect change on all levels is what is pertinent.

Bansky, the modern low art technician is fostering this debate through guerilla art marketing

If the word graffiti rubs you the wrong way think of low art in terms of a refashioned use of the idea of recycled reuse.

Internet Storytellers, Landscapes into Silence

I don't live in a heavy traffic area yet there are days and nights where I wake up thinking this is the day the internal combustion engine will finally been silenced.

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I recently came across an internet storyteller, artist, anthropologist Jonathan Harris and his project Whale Hunt. The silence of this piece is profound. It extends into the visual landscape invading the senses in a powerful, elemental way.

Along the same lines, Polar Artist, Irene Sullivan's "Excerpts of the Arctic" a photographic exploration of her time spent in the Arctic in 1980, continues to echo the silence nurtured by many of today's digital storytellers.