Imagining the Future: Lessons from Art for Inclusive and Collective Finance
“Reports suggest that by 2040 the impacts of human-caused climate change will be unescapable, making it the big issue at the centre of art and life in 20 years’ time. Artists in the future will wrestle with the possibilities of the post-human and post-Anthropocene – artificial intelligence, human colonies in outer space and potential doom.
The identity politics seen in art around the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements will grow as environmentalism, border politics and migration come even more sharply into focus. Art will become increasingly diverse and might not ‘look like art’ as we expect. In the future, once we’ve become weary of our lives being visible online for all to see and our privacy has been all but lost, anonymity may be more desirable than fame. Instead of thousands, or millions, of likes and followers, we will be starved for authenticity and connection. Art could, in turn, become more collective and experiential, rather than individual.
“I imagine art in 20 years will be much more fluid than it is today,” curator Jeffreen M Hayes tells BBC Culture, “in the sense of boundaries being collapsed between media, between the kinds of art that is labelled art, in the traditional sense. I also see it being much more representative of our growing and shifting demographics, so more artists of colour, more female-identified works, and everything in between.” (Van Houten Maldonado, 2019)
This article offers a very valuable insight into how we might imagine what the future of online baking and finance at large may look like. In the article it discusses how different global actions, such as technological change, identity politics, immigration, and climate change, will reshape the art world in the future. One of the underlying aspects of this article is that the future is not set and there are multiple paths that we can go down.
The trajectory that our future takes is dependent on the shifting demographics of people, as well as the struggles that populations are faced with. As we progress and move into the future, art has become more inclusive and a collective of a groups' experiences, so might the world of finance. As we think about the future of finance, we may be able to imagine a more community-focused banking system that allows a more authentic connection to finance.
References:
Van Houten Maldonado, D. (2019, April 18). What will art look like in 20 years? BBC Culture. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190418-what-will-art-look-like-in-20-years
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