Why Long Form Generative Art could evolve into the most significant artistic movement in the last 50 years

Full disclosure: I am a long form generative artist and so I have an emotional bias and financial incentive to promote LFGArt. I should also be clear I have no qualification as an art historian or technologist and haven’t even been engaged with either world on a professional level. I had some formal art training at the City and Guilds of London art School in the 90s. I say ‘some’ as I quit before finishing my studies to pursue esoteric geometric approaches to art making. I’ve not been an avid consumer of contemporary art related media but have visited galleries at every opportunity during travels for the past 25 years. As an observer of contemporary art you could say I’ve been a bit of an art tourist, dipping into the occasional show and reading about notable stories. Although I have been making art daily since before I went to art school, my intellectual attention has been more focussed on technology, Eastern philosophy and a layman’s interest in physics for the majority of my adult life. I have had a long standing love affair with early to mid 20th century art, but the majority of contemporary art that I have been exposed to I have found uninspiring. It’s not that there have been no great artists in the last 50 years, there have been many. For me it was more a general disenchantment with the general state of contemporary art and what I saw as an overly conceptual focus substituting for any real innovation in art since the 1950s or maybe earlier. I’m sure there would be many who would despise me for saying this and I accept I might be well off the mark. <h1>The space of conceivable art</h1> Huge paradigm shifts in art and science do not happen all the time. The birth of quantum mechanics and relativity produced seismic shifts in perspective in science and the disintegration of the institutional thinking that had grown out of a more classical view of reality. The birth of Modernism in the arts reflected these radical new approaches to looking at and understanding the world, and so we saw a quick succession of huge artistic leaps at the beginning of the last century. That’s a tough set of conditions to replicate to and so most of what follows until the next huge epoch change is a kind of consolidation and integration of those new perspectives. I am generalizing a lot and of course there have been many mini revolutions in both art and science during the last century.  <a href="https://medium.com/@harvey.rayner/why-long-form-generative-art-could-evolve-into-the-most-significant-artistic-movement-in-the-last-8076a6722673">Visit Now</a>