Science was called natural philosophy
New communications technologies challenge ancient ideas about time, distance, and space
Technology is seen as “knowing how” / Science is seen as “knowing why”
Technology - ‘his attempt to subdue or control that environment by means of his imagination and ingenuity in the use of available resources’ (13)
Information Arts can be seen as an investigation of these moving boundaries and the cultural significance of including techno-scientific research in a definition of art
Artist/scientist- ‘substitute a self-created world for the experiential one, with the goal of transcendence’
In “The Contribution of the Artist to Scientific Visualisation”- Sorensen describes artists as “organisers of large amounts of data” ; “people who find unusual relationships between events and images”, “creative inter disciplinarians”
-‘artists push the limits of technologies, bringing them to previously unattained goals’/‘original and new…something beyond the known boundaries of the information base’ (19)
“How Engineers Lose Touch” (24)
‘Successful design still requires expert tacit knowledge and intuitive ‘fee’ based on experience’
Walter Benjamin “Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Representation” : technologies such as photography and cinema decreased the importance of presence and “aura”
‘Questions of materiality and corporeality are critical for artists working with new technologies. The imaging, communications, and information technologies they work with are key facilitators of this mediated world.
The end of timelessness
‘The loss of “aura” in technologically reproducible work (30)