Beverly Jones’s article visits the relationship that exists between technology and art. She states that her thesis is, “By reviewing specific works and what appear to be underlying conditions and assumptions that shaped these works, I hope to establish the relation of specific image, object, event or environment to conceptual frames. These frames exist within art and technology and are present in other forms of symbolic and material culture.” (21). Jones uses different historical examples to elaborate on her thesis, one of which is the the stone columns that exist in Egyptian architecture. These columns were made to resemble the papyrus columns. People are always striving to make things better and more desirable for the culture that exists around them. Art theorists can actively sway the directions of new technologies and bend them to their adhere to the culture around them. Art and technology can easily influence one another, just like with the stone pillars. What was put there out of necessity, can still be given an artistic quality. In today’s culture, we see a lot of different things that some people give a lot of artistic value to. One of these things, as we have discussed in this course, is food. Today, while food is obviously a necessity, with today’s technology, people have developed ways to make food as artistic as it has ever been before. The combination of modern cooking utensils and media has led to a massive wave of culinary artists. In today’s world, people are not just cooking food over a fire, people can use stoves to cook things much faster and easier. Chefs can also use of multitude of different combinations of food and utensils to give the dish aesthetic qualities. One things, for example, is using using a solid white plate. Many professional dishes will only be served on a white dish, while many households will often have more decorative dishes. Ultimately technology and art are always going to have a relationship and many times that relationship is going to be beneficial for both sides. Art is going to have new methods of creation while technology expands its ever-growing influence over all of us. This article written by the Smithsonian shows several different ways that technology is changing the way that we see art. One example talks about a robot that is constantly working on a painting and how the painting is different every day.
Bibliography:
Jones, B. J. (1990). Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins. LEONARDO: Digital Image – Digital Cinema Supplemental Issue, pp. 21-30.
Rieland, R. (n.d.). 7 Ways Technology is Changing How Art is Made. Retrieved May 25, 2015, from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/