Cheating? Exploring the Relationship Between Technology and Art from the Renaissance to Today.
Artists have always been innovators; adopting and inventing new technologies. These new tools raise questions about whether technology is a crutch or enhancement. As the pendulum swings towards traditional methods and materials, criticisms that were made about Albrecht Durer’s perspective machines in the sixteenth century are being repeated today about photography and computer software.
This is a short clip of the wonderful and fascinating discussion / lecture that we at the Hein Academy of Art had the pleasure of learning with Micah Christensen, an art historian, and author of the beardedroman.com.
There were no conclusions drawn, but we were all left with the lines of our preconceptions of what was acceptable, and what was not, blurred. At the end of this discussion I felt that all to often we plop down our times and culture onto another’s era and culture. I cant wait to share the full discussion with you all. This particular discussion will be part of a continuing series “Art by Humans | Discussion Series + Critical Essays”. Have a wonderful evening, Ciao!
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