How technology has changed the way in which artists show their work

Media is a massive industry which is constantly growing in the world today, more so in the western world but becoming increasingly popular in the eastern world with technology becoming easier to get hold of mainly being the internet.

The internet has been the biggest improvment to any form of artist, and this technology is still young in my opinion we have a lot more to come from the internet in the years to come. For painters, photographers, graffiti artists, scuplters or someone who does drawings the internet has come as a savior for them. To see their work you would have to go to an art gallery or if you'relucky find a book containing their art. Until the internet came along a book would have been the most practical way to see an artist's work, now you can do a quick google search of a particlar artist and find all their work on one website.

For example if I google for Banksy I get 10,900,000 results, here is a screenshot to show you:

Straight away the first result is a bunch of images of his. Below that is his website that contains a huge collection of his images all of which you are able to download and use.

For music artists, the internet, home dj/recording equipment, personal computers and technology such as cds has made it so much easier for them to become noticed and popular. Artists/bands are now able to record themselves and upload their songs to the internet onto youtube or send it to record companys directly. CDs have made it easy for bands and artists to record their music onto and distribute them to whomever is interested and at a very cheap cost, the could also send one of these CDs to a record company. Before the internet or such modern technology, artists would only have two optosn to get noticed by record companies or to get listened to by a big group of people. That was either through a live event or on the radio, for a radio station it is all about their listeners and how popular their station is, and so because of that radio stations wouldn't play an artist that wasn't familiar. Same with live events, gigs would only hire people who they knew people would pay to come see.

Radio stations are now always on the look out for up and coming artists to play on the radio and give them a chance, and small gig venues are always hiring bands without record deals. And through this artists are more likely to get noticed by a label.

Anti-folk artist Jeffery Lewis has taken his work and mashed it together, during his live gigs he would have predrawn a comic book and whilst his music is playing he would show the coic book which hels create the story to the song. I couldn't find a live show but I found on youtube a video of him going through the comic book whilst he is singing the lyrics to the song and in the background playing on a speaker his him playing the guitar and in a way at the start of the video he is talking to the recorded version of himself.