Good Reads | New Artistic Democracy
March 14,2012
Arts
The theory that seems to be in common use in the industry is that a few experts have the knack for knowing how to allocate the resources for what is created. These persons are entrusted with an increasingly large influence. There are only a few major studios for deciding what most of the world consumes in the form of either visual (cinematic) or audio (music) productions. The concentration of power is a result of the distribution model of physical media or broadcast networks. These are artifacts of a technological infrastructure that was built in the last century. An infrastructure whose replacement is unavoidable.
Its replacement will enable creation and distribution of art to be democratized.
Asymco: What are the jobs that the entertainment industry is hired to do?
