Art & Technology

A fascinating topic for me has always been the relationship between art and technology. Our present and future world is rampant and highly dependent on technology to function. Art emerged as a tangible form of self-expression and awareness. We are the first species to be aware of our mortality, and thus leads us to question who we are, what our purpose is, and how we got here. Art is a way of helping us release these potentially anxiety-laden thoughts, and in our modern age, technology is the perfect medium to help us express these complex philosophical and psychological reflections. We can do so much more, I feel, with the tools technology equips us with and thus I pose the question if new media artists can actually convey much deeper, more philosophical, questions to their audiences, than their predecessors could by utilizing the highly complex and wide-ranging functions technology presents us with?