A few thoughts about art. Fewer thoughts about technology.
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Read 10 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 14 months.
I had a recurring nightmare as a child. I was stuck on a giant chessboard overcrowded with people. The giant board would be tipped in one direction and we’d all start running (or falling) in a panic towards one corner.
There’s a problem with digital abstract art. For many who encounter the medium for the first time, a similar issue comes up. The problem is that when some people look at digital abstract art, all they can see is technology.
We live amongst digital objects. We expect them to appear on our screens, usually generated from our computer’s memory after being transferred across the internet. But given their ephemeral nature and their contingency on networked relations, understanding digital objects isn’t simple.
We’re so surrounded by technology that even writing the word technology has become problematic.
