Like it or not we are firmly into what's being termed the digital revolution. Modernity is over. Didn't you get the memo? They faxed out the news years ago. Post-Modernism got demoted to a school of thought. Welcome to the Information Age. The tools for data manipulation are cheap and accessible to most adults. Including the artists.
The room spanning computers in War Games & Blue Blue's progenitors now fit in your backpack. The military's advancements in solid state electornics & tele communication have led to cheap mass storage and have removing the traditional location barriers.
The ironic thing to note though despite the means of production becoming cloud based & digital, New York City as a creative hub and non-commercial art magazines have never seen such popularity.
New York is at the center of the physical printing & editing and talent network.
One one level it's all very incestuous: you'll see an individual New Yorker (past or present) modeling, being on both sides of the camera or keyboard contributing to or having their work on several sites. The talent is versatile, wired and apart of an emerging supportive network of like minded artists. Focusing on the power of art, community & multimedia models New York produces a large volume of the original content on several social networks.
Try State Magazine & Spank are two leading the pack in this counter intuitive art trend. Leveraging free online blog & cloud based platforms each use the internet not just for promotion but for crowd sourced editing & co creative critique. Not to confuse things and suggest they are the originators of this technique. All one has to do is look at the artists they mine for their digital & physical editions to see they are following their lead.
Check out the online expression of how New York artists have been applying the model of multimedia & crowd sourcing in innovative vein since many networks went live.
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