American engineer Gordon Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors per silicon chip would double every year. Most of us reading this have lived through the exponential growth of chips and the impact on society, but Moore’s law has petered out and died. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/24/905789/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/
Atrophy. Look at the breakthrough music of the 50’s and 60’s – Elvis, the Beetles, Stones. Mini explosions compared to the expansion of the universe, but even the universe will eventually peter out and die. Entropy is a paradox then. The entropy of the universe always increases – it is a measure of disorder, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend to maximize entropy. Energy disperses, and systems dissolve into chaos.
Pegging when fine art died is not easy because there have been several mini explosions but for the most part, its been exponential copy, refine and paste, on an unprecedented, world wide scale. Social media platforms, like Instagram, are a reflection of the resulting chaos and the methods for speeding up the process are profound. At least we can sort and search the mess.
JARVEE for example, is Social Media Automation Software. For the entry price of $29.95/month, I was able to grow my Instagram follower base 10,000 percent is three months. They even have a feature that automates “likes” so your stuff looks like its on fire, no matter how bad it is. All fake, but the stats appear legit to the world viewer. I stopped, too expensive and Instagram clamped down, my conscience is another matter.
Flogging a dead horse, speeding it up to achieve chaos, sucked into the vortex with no escape. So why do we continue to make art? Its genetic, we were artists in another life, oil paint smells good, ego, vanity, pride, charity? The only thing that is certain – you can paint until your eyes go, maybe until you die. I think I’ll never stop.