What Do We Do With The Big Business Of Immersive Art? | Defector

Here we see a really pivotal moment of change, when art must become something that does not make people uncomfortable, so that they will spend money. The kind of person who is expected to consume art is transformed in the mind of the producer. The people who might very possibly love being expanded by what they see are never given the chance. They'

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I didn't get to witness the Renaissance or the Enlightenment. I grew up in a room, in front of a computer, fantasizing about the combination of art and technology. My generation doesn't produce pieces with the power to symbolize wars or revolutions, like 'Guernica' or 'Liberty Leading the People', because I am - or rather, we are - the byproduct of... See more