Technology is enabling a pretty wide variety of new art ideas:
1. Some SF-based electronic music producers are doing a lot of travel to get sounds recorded from all over the world. From what I can tell, this scene is being driven more by Europe, though.
2. Algorithmic music, live-coded music, partially randomly generated music, are all taking off. DJs running Overtone[1] are becoming more common. A lot of the music this produces is stuff I find really unsettling. But there's a growing scene for it. This has actually stayed pretty separated from the BM scene so it's of particular interest to me.
3. A lot of people are working on reproducing electronic music sounds using acoustic or non-digital means.
4. Burning-man-style metal fire art is getting way complex. Increasing expertise in safely working with propane means more intricately-tubed metal fire designs, sometimes with more moving parts. Some people are trying stuff with alcohol fuels (alcohol mixed with other stuff allows colored flame). A lot of this stuff is controlled with Arduino.
5. Wooden burnable art is mostly just getting bigger, but there's also lot of people doing more intricate stuff because of there being more available laser wood cutters.
6. Arduino combined with a lot of cheaply manufactured parts from China means a lot of neat digital visual stuff, especially with LEDs but sometimes with loopback sound devices, microphones, other sensors (even medical sensors).
7. 8-bit music is making a resurgence as old video game systems become repurposed.
8. Erotic art, BDSM in particular, is huge in SF right now. Say what you want about whether it's art or not, but a lot of people go to actually see it as art. I like the aesthetic (even on people I'm not attracted to).
9. Body modification. Sensory body mods are a big thing. Different styles of tattoos and piercings.
10. Sacred geometry seems to be trending in painting. I'm not as connected to that scene though.
11. Graffiti is falling to the wayside in favor of stencils/stickers.
12. Zines getting big again (and generally way too uninformed and political for me to bother).
13. Projected visual art with uneven projection surfaces is getting to be a thing. Rock opera/projected video is not a thing yet but I want it to be more.
1. Some SF-based electronic music producers are doing a lot of travel to get sounds recorded from all over the world. From what I can tell, this scene is being driven more by Europe, though.
2. Algorithmic music, live-coded music, partially randomly generated music, are all taking off. DJs running Overtone[1] are becoming more common. A lot of the music this produces is stuff I find really unsettling. But there's a growing scene for it. This has actually stayed pretty separated from the BM scene so it's of particular interest to me.
3. A lot of people are working on reproducing electronic music sounds using acoustic or non-digital means.
4. Burning-man-style metal fire art is getting way complex. Increasing expertise in safely working with propane means more intricately-tubed metal fire designs, sometimes with more moving parts. Some people are trying stuff with alcohol fuels (alcohol mixed with other stuff allows colored flame). A lot of this stuff is controlled with Arduino.
5. Wooden burnable art is mostly just getting bigger, but there's also lot of people doing more intricate stuff because of there being more available laser wood cutters.
6. Arduino combined with a lot of cheaply manufactured parts from China means a lot of neat digital visual stuff, especially with LEDs but sometimes with loopback sound devices, microphones, other sensors (even medical sensors).
7. 8-bit music is making a resurgence as old video game systems become repurposed.
8. Erotic art, BDSM in particular, is huge in SF right now. Say what you want about whether it's art or not, but a lot of people go to actually see it as art. I like the aesthetic (even on people I'm not attracted to).
9. Body modification. Sensory body mods are a big thing. Different styles of tattoos and piercings.
10. Sacred geometry seems to be trending in painting. I'm not as connected to that scene though.
11. Graffiti is falling to the wayside in favor of stencils/stickers.
12. Zines getting big again (and generally way too uninformed and political for me to bother).
13. Projected visual art with uneven projection surfaces is getting to be a thing. Rock opera/projected video is not a thing yet but I want it to be more.
[1] http://overtone.github.io/