Great art is an imponderable mystery. Like song, it may have nothing to do with technology. Yet technology also creates masterpieces. The best tech art is the exploration the technological sublime with a bold artistic spirit that, at bottom, needs no technology.
Sculpting mind for kicks, experimental cognitive architectures, artforms made of pure thought.
Nature is the mother of both technology and art. What could be more natural than the two offspring working in concert?
Art is play. Play is to attract mates or maintain skills. Technology arises from necessity and then extends to play.
Tech art as a way of elevating technology from a second class religion. Environmental art, behaviour art,
Texas Maximalism
Light, flight, humanoid form,
Time and gravity as mediums.
Creation, Daedalus playing god
A fixed esthetics is a poor guide to new creation.
Audio- speech, song, music, Text, Graphics- facial animation, gesture,
Tech art may be the highest expression of unopressed human nature.
In 1872 Walt Whitman prophetically urged the artist to rise to the challenge of the new industrial civilization. He wrote, in Democratic Vistas, "America demands a poetry that is bold, modern, and all-surrounding and kosmical, as she is herself. It must in no respect ignore science or the modern, but inspire itself with science and the modern. It must bend its vision toward the future, more than the past."
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