![]() In the recently published report The Social and Civil Impact of the Arts, we primarily focus on the ‘social turn’ in the arts, meaning our interest is in the impact of artworks on society rather than the traditional focus on aesthetic values in assessing the arts. For example, with the project SOMEONE (2019), Lauren McCarthy tries to address the advances in human-machine relationships represented in ‘smart houses’ and try to give back a human identity to artificial intelligent devices through active human participation. Recently, we have seen an increasing number of artists speak to some of the social consequences of the digital transformation. Also, within Europe, many people still have unreliable, bad or even no access to the internet, which then hinders participation in various activities, including education and democracy. Although many believe that internet access is widely available, this is hardly the case. ![]() An example of the social consequences of the digital transformation is related to access to the internet. Therefore, it is perhaps no surprise that the social consequences of the digital transformation are now also increasingly addressed by artists. Throughout history, the arts have always reflected major transitions as they unfold. This includes for example the impact of new technologies on processes of democratisation like Facebook had in the UK referendum in 2016, the increasing collection and analysis of personal data in the use of any social media, and the ways in which new technologies like Zoom or Facetime are changing our ways of communicating and being together in times of quarantine. Today, digitalisation changes many properties of political, social, cultural and economic entities. ![]() The term ‘digitalisation’ here goes beyond the employment of new technology for improving business performance to encompass the wider social changes induced by technology. Two decades into the new millennium it is almost impossible to imagine a future in which digital technologies do not play a key role. The report “The Social and Civil Impact of the Arts” focuses on the ways in which artists are facing current social challenges. ![]()
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