welcome to art and technology in our final episode we ask our artists to imagine the future of art technology and politics [Music] today i'm a pessimist i believe that in 50 years time artists will be resentful and will be saddened by the rise of a fascism and an autocratic state i believe that in 50 years time the damage to our ecological systems will be irreversible i think artists in 50 years will be talking about politics in terms of a massive regret i regret that we did not act in time for
some of the challenges that you know we've inherited for example climate change i feel like there's a lot of power from artists amplifying maybe the work of organizations or like activists if i had to seriously think of what i want to happen in 50 years i feel like i would very much go with the marxist utopia of like in the afternoon we plow the land and at night we do art and in the end then no one would be an artist and everyone would be an artist i mean i think that we do need a new methodolo
gy to approach the problems of politics today one of the things that i think as artists we can do is we can make visible the systems of control we can materialize and make them tangible artists can also show their way forward in politics by creating works that are absurd and absolutely useless i think that the utilitarian drive the desire to be efficient the desire to work more for less compensation is something abhorrent so i think artists can take a stand and slow things down what i'm hoping t
o see over the next 50 years is a lot more activist projects that where artists unite around activist issues making use of new technologies well this is a very um interesting moment i think for a lot of artists it is such a moment of crisis and i am excited about shifting some elements in my practice i am trying to question you know my mediums or just not automatically do the things i've done and maybe take some time to reflect and on how i could work differently just also for the fun of changin
g you know my methodologies i feel like i would say i want a space and time where there's less boundaries between what art is and what isn't so there's less people that need to spend years acquiring capital to become artists imagine the kinds of computers that we might have if they're even computers anymore maybe they'll be parts of our bodies that you just like go in and have this chip put in your finger and then you have ever you have the entire world at your fingertips i mean it is you know i
n the realm of of science fiction but it's also in the realm of possibility i would love to see a technology that holds accountable the corporations and the mafias that run the contemporary late capitalism i would love to have a way to track and to make tangible the incredible disparities in power and wealth that exist across the world i think the role of artists has always been to kind of like question institutions and it's obviously not the case always but i hope that that continues to be the
role of artists what i would want in the future is politicians and political leaders to take artists more seriously and to listen to them because if they did those artists are carrying the aspirations of the people hyundai motor connecting art and technology
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