For the inner-directed artist, skepticism will come to replace cynicism in art. To be skeptical is to have a necessary aesthetic distance in relation to one's production as an artist. To be cynical is a severe detachment in relation to one's experience with a work of art. In so doing, art is negatively transformed into a system of politicized representations. Cynicism assumes privilege as the condition of art without ever confronting the effect of privilege in relation to content.
Privilege often disguises itself through arrogance and projection.
The dialogue between artists will become essential to the task of identifying the evolving possibilities for art in the future. It is the dialogue that allows experience to be articulated and that further opens the door to understanding the qualitative standard in art. Quality in art can no longer be dismissed, and it can no longer be confused with privilege. A large part of being an artist in today's cyberspace is to offer a purposeful resistance to the cultural programming that otherwise appears so inevitable and ironically, so inescapable. This alone should be enough for the artist to insist on another position in the world made possible through the determination of one's creative efforts.