TheFeature: Topics: Culture: State of the Artists
Culture: [FEATURE]
By David Pescovitz, Thu Apr 22 12:45:00 GMT 2004
Research laboratories are the avant-garde art galleries of the twenty-first century. That shouldn’t come as a surprise though. Art is a lens through which engineers can raise tough questions about the science fiction that they create, and we inhabit.
Do we drive technology or have we become just passengers? How do we navigate a reality where the lines between the virtual and real are blurred? What is our relationship to our environments, and each other, in an increasingly mediated world?
These questions have been at the heart of electronic art since its birth in the 1960s. It was then that Bell Laboratories Telephone engineer Billy Kluver collaborated with future-minded artists like John Cage and Jean Tinguely on groundbreaking works incorporating, and often critiquing, technology’s state-of-the-art. Of course, that tradition continued through the dawn of the digital age and the emergence of the Web. And now it’s rising in the vast spectrum of wireless telecommunications.
TheFeature: Topics: Culture: State of the Artists
By David Pescovitz, Thu Apr 22 12:45:00 GMT 2004