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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.56.08.12
How to Cite:
Kovalova, M., Alforova, Z., Sokolyuk, L., Chursin, O., & Obukh, L. (2022). The digital evolution of art: current trends in the
context of the formation and development of metamodernism. Amazonia Investiga, 11(56), 114-123.
https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.56.08.12
The digital evolution of art: current trends in the context of the
formation and development of metamodernism
Evolución digital del arte: tendencias actuales en el contexto de la formación y desarrollo
del metamodernismo
Received: July 18, 2022 Accepted: September 2, 2022
Written by:
Kovalova Mariia50
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9254-2565
Alforova Zoya51
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4698-9785
Sokolyuk Lyudmyla52
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-8672
Chursin Oleksandr53
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2734-0772
Obukh Liudmyla54
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3556-7587
Abstract
The involvement of gadgets and digital
technologies is becoming an increasingly
integral part of everyone's personal life and work
life. Art has also adapted to the rapid digital
evolution and computerization in all creative
fields. This trajectory of development provokes a
new form and philosophy of artistic
development, which is called metamodern. This
article examines the theoretical foundations of
metamodernism and defines the main provisions
of this cultural phenomenon through the prism of
the development of digital technologies and the
latest means of artistic direction. The main
purpose of this research work is the study and in-
depth analysis of the formation and development
of metamodernist intentions in the modern
cultural environment and the definition of the
conceptual content of metamodern art. Also, the
author of the article determined the purpose of
distinguishing metamodernism because of the
differences in its essential characteristics from
the characteristics of modernism and
50
Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor at the Department of Painting Faculty of Fine Arts, Kharkiv State Academy of
Design and Arts, Ukraine.
51
Doctor of Arts, Professor , Head of the Department of Methodologies of Cross-Cultural Practices Faculty of Audiovisual Arts,
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts, Ukraine.
52
Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kharkiv State Academy of
Design and Fine Arts, Ukraine.
53
Candidate of Study of Art Senior teacher of Department of Painting Faculty of Fine Art, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and
Fine Arts, Ukraine.
54
Ph.D (Theory and history art), Аssociatе Professor Head of Department of Artistic Education Educational and Research Institute of
Pedagogics, Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine.
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postmodernism. The methodological approach of
the research is the search and theoretical analysis
of Ukrainian and foreign sources aimed at
studying the phenomenon of metamodernism in
view of the digital evolution of art. The author of
this article used the method of analysis, cultural-
historical, descriptive, comparative and
theoretical-literary methods of research. As a
result of scientific research, the formation and
development of digital art and metamodern art
were analyzed. The author also tried to identify
the nearest trends in the development of the
philosophy of metamodernism in the Ukrainian
artistic field.
Keywords: metamodernism, Ukrainian art,
computerization, digital technologies,
oscillation.
Introduction
We are now experiencing a new stage for all
mankind, producing an understanding of
important ideas and a revision of views on
traditions that have developed over the past
centuries. These steps are provoked by the
formation and development of digital evolution,
which has radically changed people's lives, not
only in the field of art but also in general. The
transition to new values together with new
technologies becomes the key to new
philosophical thoughts, becoming the root cause
of progress and the development of active and
emotional prosperity.
In exploring the digital evolution of art, let us pay
attention to Bishop (2018), who, in his work
exploring digital technology and the so-called
computational turn in the humanities, suggested
that new technologies allow us to visualize what
has not been possible before. The use of
photoreproduction now allows for innovatively
other methodological approaches, from the
formalism of Welflin, who as early as 1880
began using slides during art history lectures, to
the iconographic approach of E. Warburg, who in
the 1920s relied on the whole period of antiquity
to modern advertising. According to Elham
(2019) digital art in terms of its concept,
historical influences, and technical styles is an
aesthetic human condition that has developed
and changed through stages of history. Life in the
city, still as Petrarch said, makes a person
excited, anxious, and fussy (Petrova, 2017),
which generates and requires a new philosophy
dictated by the times.
Fans of postmodern art in the late 20th century
felt the changes in the philosophical and artistic
movement of their time, which led to a crisis in
their chosen philosophy and worldview. A
consequence of these events was the formation of
the ideological current of metamodernism,
combining modernist and postmodernist
philosophy. A key difference from previous
philosophies is oscillation, which does not allow
the hero or the contemplator to stop (Shabanova,
2019). It is also important that the participant has
the possibility of communication, not only
representation in communication with works of
art (Volynets, 2021).
This research paper investigated current trends in
the digital evolution of art in the context of the
work of specific cases of representatives of the
flow of metamodernism. Also, the article
analyzed the formation and development of the
philosophical idea of metamodern art and its
main components. Considering the topic of the
research, the author performed a general review
of theoretical studies of metamodernist thought,
which form a specific picture of creative non-rest
and sensual oscillation inherent in the new
philosophy. In the scientific work, the works of
researchers of the art current of metamodernism,
philosophers, and journalists, who investigated
this issue in their works, were studied and
analyzed.
Even though the art of metamodern attracts the
attention of the research community, which
brings a number of studies by art historians and
scientists, this issue requires a deeper
identification of both the term metamodern itself
and its proponents.
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Literature Review
Recently, digital art has already become an
important part of everyday life, and according to
researchers Wang and Wang (2021), its
advantages over traditional art should be noted.
An important feature is a mobility that the digital
art field has and provides jobs anywhere in the
world, which is an important element of digital
art for its creators.
Also, according to Sovgyra (2020) “artificial
intelligence,” through which lost fragments of
images can be restored, is an important and
obvious digital progression of art. And according
to scholar Mazur (2020), the preservation of
musical audio recordings and other art forms is
an important mission of digital evolution. Music
phonorepositories are becoming a convenient
means of storing and playing the desired works
in order to obtain information quickly. According
to Shmagalo (2018), the Internet and its
resources testify to the development of society,
which is an important basis for the formation of
art, culture, and science in the world.
It is worth noting that according to Gupta (2019)
the environment of digital art, which has existed
for more than a century, has always attracted
attention, but the digital technology of the
present is a means of influence. A large number
of contemporary researchers devote their work to
the new phenomenon that has emerged from the
digital evolution of art. Thanks to advances in
scientific activities, gadgets, and computer
technology have taken a leading place in people's
daily lives and creativity. Against the
background of the formation and rapid
development of digital art, a new phenomenon
and a whole era of metamodernist philosophy
emerged, which continues to dominate modern
society. According to Haiduk and his colleague
Tarapatov (2022), metamodernism was formed
based on virtual reality, as the vast majority of
works are created and presented based on virtual
space and social networks. Based on the
scientists' work, we can conclude that the leading
place in the dissemination and education of
metamodern art lies precisely in social networks.
A large number of researchers, such as Westerby
and Keegan (2019), Cardinali (2019), Dahlgren
and his colleague Wasielewski (2020) define the
era of digital art with the beginning of the
digitization of museum collections, which began
the transfer of the art world to virtual reality
platforms.
According to a study of the new current of art by
Kersten and Wilbers (2021), it was thanks to a
number of scholars from around the world who
gathered for a seminar at Radboud University in
Nijmegen in 2015 that the era of the metamodern
was established. In addition, as Tereshchenko
(2020), metamodernism had a variation in the
name. Consequently, it was proposed to call the
new phenomenon in art and culture -
hypermodernism, digital modernism,
automodernism, post-postmodernism, or pseudo-
modernism.
In his work B. Masters (2021) raises the question
of the emergence of metamodernism based on the
literary work of H. Wells and his opponent in the
creative debate of H. James, arguing about the
purpose of the fiction novel of his time. The
researcher considers G. Wells a significant figure
in the formation of modernist philosophy but
finds a number of similar views in the works of
A. Smith, who complemented the
conceptualization of the metamodern novel,
showing the direction of G. Wells to the
metamodern. This development carries a special
form of philosophical content, thanks to which
metamodernism began to settle in art and
literature.
Analyzing the Ukrainian literary heritage of
recent years researcher Vertyporoh (2022) paid
attention to the work of M. Brynykh and his
novel “Bread with gristle”. Letting this literary
asset through the prism of metamodernism, the
existential perspective of the work becomes
clear. Ukrainian literature returns to the sources
and the truth, as indicated by both the novel
“Bread with gristle” itself and its author. Another
Ukrainian researcher of metamodernism in
contemporary literary space Grebenyuk (2018)
draws the attention of the scientific community
to the totality of cultural and aesthetic trends of
metamodern art and metanarratives of
contemporary Ukrainian society. Under the
influence of historical memory, the researcher
emphasizes the importance of its influence on the
modern culture of verbal art and many works
based on the concept of freedom.
Researcher Harrison (2021), who studied the
creative legacy of M. McCormack and focused
his research on the novel “Sunny Bones”, draws
attention to somewhat formal metamodern
qualities of the mentioned philosophy.
L. Harrison believes that Irish literature of the
twenty-first century, which was formed based on
the art of the metamodern, has developed a lively
relationship with the heritage of modernism,
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which gives a color of uncertainty to the new
structure of the senses.
Horyslavets (2020) in her study of artistic
strategies of metamodernism in the audiovisual
arts highlights this philosophical current as the
most effective way to go beyond postmodernism
in cinema. According to the researcher, there was
a renewal of the film language, abandoning the
cynicism of the papa combined irony with
sincerity, but the artists of the century are
doomed to compilation in the film industry. In
general, according to Horyslavets trends in the
audiovisual art of both Ukraine and the world
consists in the departure from the purely linear
structure of the plot, which leads to a deviation
from the narrative. Another researcher
K. Mykhaylova (2020), who studied
metamodernism in Asian auteur cinema and
highlighted the structure of feelings, which
carries the metamodern film industry. The
philosophy of metamodernism used in the
context of cinema, according to K. Mykhaylova,
is based on three bases - principled, theoretical,
and essence characteristics. K. Mykhaylova,
comparing these three approaches to modernism,
postmodernism, and metamodernism in her work
analyzes and separates philosophical and artistic
approaches in accordance with their foundations.
Consequently, on the basis of the modernist
utopian syntax and the postmodernist
inescapable parataxis, a new atopic metaxis is
formed, providing for a combination of space and
time, being simultaneously in order and disorder.
Thus, we can conclude that K. Mykhaylova,
exploring the foundations of metamodernism
through the prism of film art, finds elements of
modernity and postmodernism based on the
metamodernism of the film industry.
Analyzing metamodernism through the prism of
game art we should note the studies of H. J.
Backe (2022), J. Li (2022), who in their research
highlight the influence of the new philosophy of
metamodernism art on the game sphere. Noting
the trends of development H.J Backe defines the
principles of building the genre of immersive sim
in game art and the implementation of
metamodernism in the gamified society. Given
this research, the use of postmodern sensory
schemes in-game art shapes the metamodern
behavior and responses of the gamified world.
Drawing on the findings of another scholar J. Li,
it should be noted that game art is developing and
improving at a rapid pace due to the involvement
of masters from other categories of artistic
activity.
Researcher Volynets V. O. (2021) studied the
sphere of influence of virtual, augmented, and
mixed reality on contemporary audiovisual art.
According to this study, the rapid development of
digital and computer technologies, in particular,
support the improvement and development of
world art in its various manifestations.
Determining the place of virtual art in the
creative arena of humanity in the second decade
of the XXI century, we should also pay attention
to the study of the Ukrainian scholar
Machulin L. I. (2022), who in his work, which
explored the impact of the phenomenon of NFT
on contemporary art, draws attention to the
importance of digital technology in the further
development of world culture in his work the
researcher hypothesized the probability of
separation of digital art from the traditional
vision of classical art, which opens new
possibilities and forms in future.
Methodology
The methodological basis of this article on the
study of the digital evolution of art and the study
of current trends in the formation and
development of metamodern art was the cultural-
historical method of analysis, theoretical-literary,
descriptive and comparative methods. With the
help of the cultural-historical method, the author
of the research article studied historical aspects
of the formation and development of art in close
connection with digital progress. Using the
method of analysis, the author of the article
investigated the state of metamodernism in the
world and in particular. Using the theoretical-
literary method of research was analyzed the
literary heritage of the creators of the
metamodernist style of writing and their
characteristic features, allowing to highlight
modern trends in writing. Using the descriptive
method, the formation of digital art was
described and investigated, as well as a partial
prediction of possible developmental trends. The
comparative method of research helped in the
study and comparison of visual, audiovisual,
literary art, which helped to form a complete
picture of metamodernism in the study of this
topic based on modern world and Ukrainian art.
In this work, a significant amount of information
sources of Ukrainian, Kazakh, and American
researchers on the topic of metamodernism and
the general evolution of art through the digital
development of mankind were investigated.
This research work on the study of the formation
and development of contemporary art in the
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context of a new philosophical and artistic
current of metamodernism was carried out in
three successive stages.
During the first phase of research, the author of
this article had collected and conducted a
thorough analysis of literary sources, which
helped in the formation of the main issues of the
study of the digital evolution of art through the
prism of the formation of a new current of
metamodernism in the works of authors of
literary, audiovisual, visual and other genres.
Performing the second stage of work on the
scientific work, a thorough analysis of the
information was carried out, according to which
the main accents of the study of the phenomenon
of metamodernism in the modern world were
established. Also, at this stage of the work the
features and characteristic features of Ukrainian
art of different genres, in particular, literature,
which was created under the influence of the
philosophy of metamodernism, were highlighted.
In the course of this stage, the studies were
considered, which helped to form the nearest
tendencies and perspectives of formation and
development of the art of metamodernism on the
territory of Ukraine.
At the last stage of the scientific work were
carried out summaries and results, which were
formed during the work on the topic of research
of the digital evolution of art, which helped in
summarizing the overall results of this study.
The results of this research work can be used for
further development of the research topic of the
digital evolution of art.
Results and Discussion
Man of the XXI century lives in a time dominated
by digital technologies, which continue to rapidly
develop and become involved in everyday and
creative life. This integration of civilization has
led to the phenomenon of digital art. It is also
important to note that “digital art” as a term was
introduced by G. Cohen in the 1980s in
connection with the digitization of artistic
creativity, primarily the beginning of artists'
work in the graphic editor “Aaron”. Creators of
pop art (R. Hamilton), photographers
(A. Gursky, J. Wall), artists (M. Wilson, J.
Gemskern, D. Pearmans, C. Bruno) actively
implemented digital technology in creative
activities, which opened new opportunities and
horizons for creativity (Farting, 2019). In the
modern world digital art has become almost the
leading form of creativity of artists.
The digitization of historical artifacts and data,
the recovery of literature, and historical images,
all of which form large digital repositories, are of
great importance for the evolution of art. The
whole movement of classical and traditional art
in different countries and cultures is leading to a
new era of digital art (Cardinali, 2019).
Beginning in the 1960s, art museums began to
engage in the digitization of their collections,
using digital technology, in particular computers,
to organize this digitization process, creating
special online catalogs and coordinating online
visitors. It is important to note that this early
involvement of computer technology in the
museum field and the digitization of collections
is one of the important and driving steps in the
digital evolution of art (Dahlgren &
Wasielewski, 2020). Art history itself is being
rebuilt and digitized, even catalogs of scholarly
collections are being moved from conventional
archives to the digital space, where materials are
conveniently and more accessible to art history
researchers. For example, the Art Institute of
Chicago and other museums have created an
online platform for cataloging museum
collections since 2009, making the Chicago
Institute a leader in digitizing historical artifacts
and works (Westerby & Keegan, 2019).
The evolution of digital technology and its
introduction into people's daily lives is the basis
of the digitalization of the world. However, an
important point, in addition to the use of
computers and gadgets in everyday life, is
gamification, which is occupying an increasingly
important place in human life. Since the play has
been the leading activity since childhood, the
transfer of gaming elements into the realm of art
for children and later adults is not such an acute
issue. The gamification of digital art, based on
the perfection of a variety of technologies and
tools by promoting speculative design and
interactive experiences of users and visitors to
online museums and art archival collections, is
the product of designers and digital masters (Li,
2022). With this in mind, popular contemporary
games that adhere to the philosophy of the
metamodern are in insane demand. One such
game is Deathloop, which professes a philosophy
of metamodern art that continues the idea of
modernist, postmodernist aesthetics while also
being a reaction to them (Backe, 2022).
In addition to the digitization of museum
collections, the tradition of online art exhibitions
is also spreading widely. For example, in 2017
the work of artist W. Dyson was digitized and
exhibited on an online platform in the context of
the Australian War Memorial “Art of the Nation:
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Official Art and Photography of Australia during
the First World War” (Gunn, 2020).
Paying attention to the visual arts through the
prism of digital evolution, one should pay
attention to the new platform for artistic artists
NFT (non-interchangeable tokens). The NFT
phenomenon is a phenomenon of contemporary
world culture and a virtual platform for creators
of the 21st century. Given the leading place that
virtual art occupies in the modern world and the
general outlook of people, shows the importance
and strategy of the development of artistic
activity for the future (Machulin, 2022).
Note that digital technology is becoming more
and more deeply integrated into the field of art
and not only that, because of the events of recent
years, psychology has also moved to the side of
digitalization. Digital art therapies have begun to
be introduced more and more frequently due to
the coronavirus and other global disasters that
have captivated the modern world. The potential
of art-therapeutic practices involving digital
technology is very great because it allows all
participants in the action to remain in a
comfortable and safe environment, which
promises greater involvement and quality of art
therapy. For example, the Paparella Center for
Innovative Arts at Lawson Ministries Hamilton
has created and implemented an innovative new
digital art therapy program for a group of people
with moderate to severe autism spectrum
disorders. Through this program, participants
develop creative thinking and creativity, expand
their abilities to use digital technology, and
support group members' social engagement
(Darewych, 2021).
Metamodernism in the contemporary art context
is a dominant philosophical current with a large
number of admirers around the world. The
movement that fills everyone's life has become
the root cause of the metamodern pendulum. The
development of modern digital technology,
computer simulations, the integration of
cyberspace into people's everyday life, and the
loss of familiar meanings gave rise to the
philosophy of metamodernism, which, according
to its proponents, can preserve and protect people
from being lost in a deceptive reality. It is the
collection of previous ideas of meaningfully
opposite cultural paradigms that the artist of
metamodernism is engaged in since the
philosophy of modernity has reached a dead end,
since it propagated the end of art and history, and
the postmodern in its turn has exhausted its
powers in the search for meanings (Shabanova,
2019).
The integral movement within metamodern
philosophy, triggered by the global digital
revolution and the financial crisis, combines
elements of modernism and postmodernism
based on relativistic viewpoints. Polarities do not
always produce problematicness but opposing
values can converge in the permanence of
processes that do not require the choice of a
particular solution (Piro, 2018).
Postmodernism in art and literature began to fail
at the end of the 20th century, due to the increase
in world dynamics, the constant search for new
meanings and truths both in literature and in art
in general, which forced artists to move along the
path of metamodernist intensity, which began to
move in the early 21st century. The term itself
was created in the 2010s by R. van den Acker and
T. Vermeulen, who described the phenomenon as
an expression of the chaotic nature of the
contemporary multicultural world. The
humanistic bent of the prose form of literature,
the variation of modernist and postmodernist
writing are characteristic features of the work of
artists of metamodernism. But it should be noted
that researchers still do not use the term
metamodernism as a new direction in literature
and art in general, because the final formation of
this phenomenon is still not completed (Lanova,
2022).
It should be noted that the key features of the
metamodern are binary logic of events, the
naivety of thinking and actions, purposeful
incompleteness, rejection of absolute aesthetics,
and expanding the boundaries of cognition in
general (Haiduk & Tarapatov, 2022). According
to the Kazakh researcher Mykhaylova (2020),
who studied the peculiarities of metamodern art
in Asian auteur cinema, considers the “structure
of feelings” as a push for constant variables
based on their changeable detection, which
allows to find differences and distinguish
individual parts of their characteristics.
Following this view, and drawing on hitherto
untypologized phenomena, one should lean
toward the introduction of interdisciplinary
trends in both culture and art in general. The
works of artists who adhere to metamodernism
highlight a whole variety of essential
characteristics of the structure of feeling (Figure
1). Most importantly, these feelings go beyond
the usual “good and evil,” which baffles fans of
static views of art and philosophy in general.
All of the aspects of metamodernism's senses
described in the figure characterize
contemporary social narratives that complement
the philosophical concepts of the new trend in art.
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The most essential fraction of the sense structure
is oscillation, which is a repeating process in
varying degrees over time of changing states of
the system at a point of equilibrium. The very
fraction “purpose” in the word metamodern is
used here to mean “between,” that is, even the
morphology of this word suggests oscillation. In
the context of a work of fiction, this should be
understood as the oscillation of this idea or
phenomenon between stated boundaries in a
philosophical or stylistic context (Shabanova,
2019).
Fig. 1. Characterizing the Structure of Sense in the Metamodern Art Philosophy
Source: (Mykhaylova, 2020).
It is interesting that even in today's popular rap
culture there is a characteristic manifestation of
the philosophy of metamodernism in full
measure. Among all things, it is in rap battles that
the metamodernist influence of the oscillation
between postmodernism, because there are
simulacra and rejection of modernism is most
clearly seen. What is important is that rap
combines high and low culture, which is a
characteristic metamodernism pendulum of
choice (Lassan, 2018).
It is important to note that the development of
digital technologies has brought virtual (VR),
augmented (AR), and mixed reality into the art
world, which erase spatial and temporal
limitations and immerse people in an interactive
creative process. With this solution,
communication, rather than the representation
inherent in other varieties of creativity using
computer technology, has become possible in the
art space. With the help of VR and AR
technologies, the process of creating theatrical
performances, movies, exhibitions,
performances became interactive and habitual for
participants and visitors of these actions
(Volynets, 2021). The theatrical stage, cinema,
exhibitions, and performances have been
significantly influenced by the results of digital
evolution and paying attention to the fact that art
always reacts fastest and shows changes in
society and the world, it becomes clear such
influence and scale of the introduction of
innovative technologies in all its processes and
forms.
Drawing attention to Ukrainian art, within the
framework of large-scale events taking place
within the country as of 2022 and the global
natural disaster in the embodiment of COVID-
Ethics of authenticity
New sensuality
Reconstruction
Revival of the myth
Performatism Senses in the Metamodern
Philosophy
Humor
Educated naivete
Utopian twist
Erasure
New sincerity
Oscillation
Neo-romanticism
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19, it should be noted the steady and continuous
development of the art industry in the country.
Digital design and computer graphics created by
masters according to the philosophy of
metamodern in Ukraine as a combination of 2D-
animation and modern digital technology,
UX/UI-design, concept art, 3D-painting, game
design, character design produces a combination
of traditional visual art and digital technology
and software tools to create a variety of digital
products (Osadcha & Baluta, 2021), which
promises further development of this sphere.
Considering that metamodernism as a
philosophical and artistic current of the XXI
century embodies sincere emotions and feelings
of hope, romanticism, return to the truth, it
should be noted that it is postmodernism that left
the devaluation of personality and emotions and
became the root cause of such manifestation of
sensuality. The creativity of Ukrainian artists of
the word, who are looking for new themes and
means of expression, in particular, S. Zhadan, H.
Pahutiak, M. Dochynets, Yu. Vynnychuk, V.
Lys, S. Andrukhovych, and other creators are
increasingly understanding the literary genre and
philosophy of the metamodern (Vertyporoh,
2022). Considering the features of the
metamodern in Ukrainian literature we should
pay attention to the works of S. Zhadan and his
works “Talk”, “Internat”, “Tango of Death” by
Yu. Vynnychuk, O. Zabuzhko “Museum of
abandoned secrets” and other authors who used
metanarratives of historical memory, which have
an impact on modern writing. Analyzing such
works through the prism of metamodern art, we
can single out distinctive stylistic features of the
new metamodern philosophy in their artistic
structure. Frustration becomes a consequence of
the sad and tragic events of the Ukrainian people
in the past and present (Grebenyuk, 2018).
Studying and making an attempt to predict the
trends of Ukrainian art development in close
relationship with the rapid development of digital
technology in the world, it should be noted the
unstable situation in the country for 2021 but let
us emphasize stable movement towards the
development of Ukrainian artists, despite all the
destructive aspects that affect the creative
productivity within the country. Metamodern is
considered as an open system of observation in
the art to move between the extremes of one
plane in the pursuit of balance in it, which is
currently observed in the Ukrainian masters of
various branches, working from the philosophy
of the metamodern.
Conclusions
Summing up the results of this research work, it
is worth paying attention to the formation of an
inseparable connection between the world of art
and digital technologies, which allowed artists of
today to achieve new achievements.
According to the results of the research, it should
be noted that identifying the features of the
digital evolution of art and studying the
formation of a new artistic current of
metamodernism forces researchers to move away
from the traditional vision and division of these
aspects into the world of technology and the
world of art, and in particular to consider these
phenomena in close symbiosis. Also, according
to the author of the article, it is important to take
into account that the leading quality of
metamodern art, formed as a consequence of the
integration of art and digital technology in the
worldview of people on the steady movement
and oscillation - feelings, characteristic and
thematic, inherent in the metamodernist
ideology.
As a result of this research work, the author
highlighted the following results. First, the
development of digital art continues to expand its
possibilities and reveals art with the help of new
technologies and opportunities. Secondly,
metamodern as we see it today in art and as a
philosophical current has a large number of
imitators, both in Ukraine and around the world,
which provokes the creation of digital
technology online exhibitions, performances,
creates contemporary cinema, visual and literary
works. Thirdly, the art in Ukraine, despite the
difficult conditions for the creation of
contemporary art, has great prospects for
development, the appeal of Ukrainian artists to
the historical past helps artists self-identify and
create a nationally coherent and unique art of the
XXI century.
In the process of researching the formation and
development of a new artistic and philosophical
current of metamodernism, the author of the
article considers it necessary to continue
developing the topic of research in connection
with the rapid development of digital
technologies that allow art to evolve and develop.
Future researchers of this issue need to deepen
the question of the phenomenon of the symbiosis
of art and technology in the digital world, as well
as to analyze the future consequences of this
integration movement.
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