Artists like everyone else are part of the real world. This world is rapidly changing. IT and its practitioners are the forces driving the change. Artists are under an obligation to inform and equip themselves to best access IT. The Arts Council and other bodies have an obligation to facilitate this gaining of knowledge.

Communities are changing, as is cultural expression. There is some way to go before we develop a single consciousness as a world community and it is not safe to predict the long-term future of this possible development. The appearance and make up of communities will alter, as is the nature of things. Communities will remain a feature of human kind for as long as we seek linkage to one another in a tangible localised way. People construct means of relating to the local and that which is further away. Artists interpret what is taking place in a community or society in their time. Artists are part of communities and will change with them. All of us are part of a real world. In common with others, artists will take up the tools available to them in order to interpret what is happening in the world. IT is one of the tools available to be used. It reflects on artists’ sense of inquiry for them to be concerned with its application.