A headline on a discussion group caught my eye the other day. Something about art 100 years from now. It got me thinking.

One hundred years from now people may no longer be able to live on earth. They may live in space or under the oceans in any case it will be very different. And art will be very different. Technology will be an integral part of creating and displaying art. Famous works of art will not be limited to real media. It is going to be hard to get those big paintings to the moon or where ever people are living in space. A coffee table art book will be table that is a flat screen touch display.

Artists will be able to create and publish their work as something that today we call a book . It'll be distributed and viewed electronically.

Photography as we know it today will have morphed into a new art form. Perhaps it will be called Techno-Impressionism. The sketch of this future art form will be a photograph. Like the sketch made by a real media artist, it will be just the beginning. The darkroom where this sketch/photo will be manipulated will be housed in a computer and surrounded by programs that allow the artist to see the sketch, really see it. The programs will allow the artist to be immersed in the image They'll dive deep down and if they want to see the individual pixels that make up the image. Their eyes and their imagination will find the shapes, forms and patterns that the colors, highlights and shadows create.

Artists will be able to play, experiment, explore a vast array of dimensions that would have enthralled a great master like Van Gogh. They'll be able to save every variation of the image that they create.

Tony Karp is doing all of this now. His latest art work Techno-Impressionism - Art and Technology can be downloaded here.. It is over a hundred pages of art that started out as that sketch/photo. Images where Tony has explored many different dimensions that exist in a single image This art is displayed in many interesting and varied ways. You can also see a large collection of his work at the Techno-Impressionist Museum.