How We Access Art and Information in Era of Big Data
Submitted by Steve on June 13, 2012
From Patrick Hussey at The Guardian:
Let's end with the big picture of what New Curation and this Open Art movement could achieve, breaking down the silos of human knowledge and uniting art with sciences like sociology, archaeology – heck, even chemistry. Imagine you are a scientist researching a project that could be informed by hidden gems from our thousands of years of culture, like the researchers who used Thoreau's journals to track climate change. That connection was spotted by a well-read human brain. With Open Art we could create insights like this more often, more easily, creating a kind of meta-criticism.
When Carl Jung made the case for psychology, he left out a crucial consideration: art. Open Art might tell us so many interesting things on the macro scale about human nature. Google Flu now shows us what people search for during epidemics, but what art do societies seek before war breaks out? What poems do they reach for before great social revolutions?
Who knows? I suspect we are about to find out.