Art, in the age of information

“We identify art works in a formal sense because we find them aesthetically pleasing and we find that they enhance our perception of the world around us through the apt use of images.” — Layton

With the onset of information Age, we have witnessed various cultural shifts in the way we perceive, absorb, process or create art-forms, like paintings, sculptures or music to name a few.

Since its beginning, around Palaeolithic age, when the purpose of art was mainly ritualistic and to communicate, art has gone through a lot of
transformation in their role and significance in society.
For a long time, art forms associated intimately with a medium to experiment and deliver a visual narrative to the viewer for participation and
engagement — in order to experience and get a glimpse of artist’s expression.

But, with the adoption and proliferation of digital systems and global shift towards information, the contemporary art is witnessing a recent upsurge in the use of various mixed media to deliver that artistic narrative.
Apart from the traditional physical medium — canvases, paper, acrylics, charcoal or oil, in essence, other modalities like data, sound and the technological advancement to manipulate the same, started to come into play and serve the purpose of delivering the artistic narrative to the viewer by serving within the chronologically developed grammar.