Can a new culture grow from Post Digital art?
By
Adam Tinworth
There's a rule of thumb in the real estate business that if you want to know which part of a city is going to go up-market next, look at where the artists go to work. The combination of cheap space and available properties draws in artists - never slow to spot an opportunity - which then brings in the "cool crowd", which then brings in the "wannabe cool but wealthy crowd", and so the process of gentrification begins.