Paper short abstract:

Art, as many other disciplines, has changed a lot in its practices from the past. But we still continue addressing it as it was a century ago. So, how could we replace the actual meaning of art in our social context in order for it to share responsibility with other disciplines on equal terms?

Paper long abstract:

Art as we consider it has changed a lot from the way we knew it as a representation of reality, like the role photography has produced in painting. Now some of its concerns have more to do with sociology, politics, film, etc. How come the field of art has changed so much and we continue naming it the same?

Because there is not a problem with the name but what it means in the collective consciousness. And here there is a paradox. Although art has changed a lot, the understanding of art for the majority of people is still as a subjective way of representation. Which in this era has the value of almost nothing compared with the subjects that concern people today.

Today there are movements which demand the application of artists’s way of thinking for other disciplines like education (Acaso, 2017). But here I’m going to discuss how I think art no longer has the role as a singular field and should be associated with other disciplines. That is equal to saying that different disciplines should be more intertwined to have more coherence between the evolution of society and the way it thinks its practice.

Because in the end when we talk about responsibility we have to talk about co-responsibility — having the same impact in society: economically, culturally and technologically. And today the proportion of how technology and art are affecting the world is analogous to the weight of the sun compared to that of an orange.