Art, Games, and Technology Research
May 24, 2015
In Beverly Jones’ article, she talks about how their is a connection between art and technology and how it has change the way art can be produced. In her thesis she states that “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).
She then uses historial examples of how art and technology have intertwined in some way. She talks about “…early market predictions of the Mercedes Benz Corporation, which limited the number of potential automobile sales to the very low number of trained chauffeurs then available” (21). It shows how technology can be wrong sometimes even though our society has put so much trust in it.
In todays culture, technology is becoming even more popular and especially in the arts. It has become a new medium as Jones explains in her article as well. She states that “electronic and photonic art forms have been and will continue to be influenced by their origins and practices.” (21) There is a shift to a new way of jugding art as well ebcause you can no longer use the old formalist approach. Jones explains that “both schools of criticism can be viewed as reductive; that is, they ignore historical, social or representational references within an artwork.” (25) There is an explain of an artist using technology within his artwork in the piece ‘LIGHT ECHOES’ By Aaron Koblin. He had the idea from “a question posed by Doug Aitken, an American multimedia artist who once spent three weeks on a train traveling from New York to San Francisco. “What would you do if you had a train?” he asked me. I answered that I would put a laser on it; I would try to turn it into a gigantic paintbrush of light.” (Koblin) It is an interesting idea because it shows how technology creates a frame for artists to work within.
Sources Cited
“Art and Technology.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 Nov. 2013. Web. 24 May 2015.<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/art-and-technology.html?_r=0>.