New Facets of Culture and the Arts Within the Nowadays World of Information Systems and New Technology

Abstract

The evolution of new technologies, sophisticated information systems and a constant seek for innovation have been significantly transforming most of the areas of human activities, including the field of culture and the arts. In particular, two areas have to be highlighted: the way how the arts are created and the way how the arts are delivered to their audiences. In the first case the new technologies have enabled the creation of the completely new forms of arts especially with the use of digital technologies, so called digital arts. In the second case the wide spread of internet, evolution of new personal devices (smart phones, tablets, e-book readers etc.) and social media emergence caused radical changes in distributions channels of cultural products based on their digitalization and dematerialization. The aim of this paper is to analyze revolutionary changes in the field of culture and the arts enabled by the global implementation of new information and communication technologies within our everyday lives. These changes indicate a transformation of traditional production and distribution formats within the arts and cultural industries towards dematerialized cultural contents in the digital age.