The Impact of Digital Modernity as a Cultural Project on the Formation of Contemporary Artistic Structures
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This research addresses the effectiveness of the cultural project of digital modernity in restructuring contemporary visual art. It proceeds from the hypothesis that digital modernity is not a passing technical development, but an integrated cultural project that exerts a transformative pressure on aesthetic structures as a whole. The research aims to analyze this effectiveness on three interrelated structural levels: the conceptual level, which concerns the redefinition of art and its boundaries; the applied level, which manifests in the spectrum of digital artistic practices; and the relational level, which reveals the re-engineering of the triangle composed of the artist, the medium, and the receiver. The research adopts an analytical–descriptive method, drawing on the structural and dynamic approaches. It concludes that digital modernity has produced a qualitative reformulation of the artistic field, transforming it from a hierarchical structure into a negotiating network, and posing renewed challenges concerning authorship, aesthetic identity, and the value criterion, with particular implications for the Arab and Iraqi artist.
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