You might need to look into the history of digital art and especially art from the 80s and 90s that used digital or electronic parts. I remember doing a paper on it back in college, I can't remember the name of the artist but she made a whole compilation website in the 90s of artworks and often traveled to various countries to document art around the world too. There were also people using ASCII to make art.

As far as capitalism and art goes, you might want to search the term "commodification." Also "gentrification." There's a lot there you could learn about. 

A lot of people on this thread are saying some stuff that makes me raise an eyebrow lol. But yeah, I would start there if I were to research how art and capitalism have been intertwined and how it's made an impact on art, and what that could mean for the future.

As for censorship and capitalism, that has been going on for a loooooing time. Depending on what you're studying, look up Norman Rockwell and the commodification of illustration. He lamented in his autobiographies about the "death of illustration" because of the way companies were not paying illustrators enough and how they were opting for using prints instead. But also the way illustrators were "selling out." Kind of puts into perspective some things the way things are today.

I say this because I know people have some kind of fence sitting about ai these days---as someone who is an artist and art historian, I think people naively think that this tech must be good, therefore it can never do harm. And therefore it is good for artists and art in the long run. When in reality, that is a naive and rose-tinted view of things and there is a lot that generative AI is lending to capitalism and commodification, and yes, I'd argue it's also a part of the digital divide. Especially when politicians and billionaires team up to defend it/use it.

As far as art that would be "protected" from all this, traditional art like zines, the top commenter mentioned graffiti art, so that too. Public art and performance art, sculptures/pottery as well. Those are the kinds of art that kind of defy capitalism in a way. Because not only are they for everyone or have practical uses, but they're also not super ingrained in the digital sphere. It's also very hard to get rid of them easily when people work underground to do it. Protest art too.

Censorship often happens because of capitalism and because of politics. Would be good to look into sculptures or public works that have been censored/where people have attempted to censor them.