The future of art is likely to be less about what tools are used and more about why someone chooses to make something at all.
Technology will keep expanding the surface of art. Digital tools, AI, mixed reality, and new display formats will make creating and sharing work easier and faster. But ease has a side effect: when almost anyone can generate images instantly, the value shifts away from novelty and toward intention. What begins to matter is not how impressive the output looks, but whether it carries a point of view.
Art will continue moving away from markets and institutions as the main judges of meaning. Many artists will work quietly, outside galleries, posting, archiving, or simply making without an audience in mind. This doesn’t reduce art’s importance; it returns it to something closer to personal necessity. As Marcel Duchamp once said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see” — Marcel Duchamp.
Handmade and slow processes will not disappear. In fact, they may feel more meaningful precisely because they resist speed. Painting, drawing, and physical materials will coexist with digital work, not in competition but as different ways of thinking. Choosing a medium will be an ethical or emotional decision, not a technical one.
Meaning, not perfection, will become the center. Viewers will be less impressed by polish and more attentive to honesty. Work that feels lived-in, uncertain, or incomplete may resonate more than finished statements. In a noisy world, quiet clarity becomes powerful.
Ultimately, the future of art is human. No matter how advanced tools become, art will still be a way to sit with questions, to notice small things, and to leave traces of thought behind. As long as people feel the need to reflect, resist, or simply pay attention, art will continue, just in forms we haven’t fully named yet.
“I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don’t like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).”
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ― Rob Siltanen _ Word Series: Mad Organic T-Shirt.
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I believe art matters most when it changes how we look at the world. Pollock did that with abstract expressionism, Warhol did it with pop art, and Judd did it through minimalism. Each of them helped people see art in a new way — and that kind of influence is what gives their work real meaning and value.
“Art has been valued and given importance through the artist, regarded as the one who creates something wondrous and beautiful. At a certain point, artists within that way of thinking often distance themselves more and more from the community and society. In Thai education, this system of teaching and learning art is still being used.”
“When art is no longer the center of the universe, then artists are not either. This has been a question asked of artists since the time of Walter Benjamin. He spoke about this long ago, and it has been written about for a long time.
“In the modernist view, the artist was seen as something close to a superhuman — exalted as someone with supreme specialness, with an intuition that could not be explained. When the artist was elevated above us, above the university guard or the noodle vendor next door, the artist became like a kind of demi-god, regarded as more special than anyone else.
“In fact, in contemporary thought, the artist is like a motorcycle taxi driver — it’s just another profession. We work within a framework of knowledge that is not some kind of miracle. And art itself depends on other bodies of knowledge.”
Jiradej Meemalai Co-founder of ‘Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture’
“เมื่อศิลปะไม่เป็นศูนย์กลางจักรวาล ศิลปินก็จะไม่เป็นด้วย ซึ่งศิลปินเคยถูกตั้งคำถามนี้มาตั้งแต่สมัย Benjamin Walter เขาพูดเรื่องนี้มานานแล้ว หนังสือก็เขียนมานานแล้ว
