6. Fracture

‘Fracture’ explains that in contemporary art, a profound rift has opened up between the marketized art directed at the super-rich, extravagantly expensive, and often familiarly standardized, and a world of artistic social activism. The restless, global, event-driven art world has become ever more environmentally damaging. It is thus unsurprising that art fairs have occasionally been the site of protest. One response was found in increasingly activist art practices of online art or Internet art. In digital art, the use of new technological means to make and distribute work came into conflict with the craft-based practice, patronage, and elitism of the art world.