ART AND TECH

♥♥ BFFs ♥♥

ART

TECH

AHHHRT

ARCH

TART

E(C)H?

ART

Visual art

Theatre and performance

Writing – poetry, stories

Music and sound

Photography

TECH

Math

Sciences

• Physics

• Biology

• Chemistry

Engineering

FOR THE SAKE OF

CLARITY

…an instance of art and technology as opposed to the idea of

art or technology

This isn’t about art as an object of consumption, or tech as a device.

ZEUS

• Lightning bolts

• Cheated on Hera constantly

• King of gods

• Father of many

• Not exactly a charmer

• But hey, lightning bolts, yo

MNEMOSYNE

• Goddess of memory

• Zeus’s aunt (keeping it in the

family)

• She invented languages and

words.

• Yeah, she came up with

documentation. She also came up

with Python.

MEET THE BFFS

• Meet

Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Poly

hymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Ur

ania and Melpomene ,the

daughters of Zeus and

Mnemosyne and their

teacher, Apollo.

• Daughters of Zeus and

Mnemosyne.

MEET APOLLO

• God of sun and light, logic and

reason, truth and poetry

• Teacher of the muses

• Slept with ALL THE THINGS

• You want enlightenment? Call

Apollo. 1.900.im.so.hot.

SO EVERYONE KNOWS

You can’t make art without technology. Some poor fool had to mix

cobalt pigment with egg yolk to make paint. Technology is the tool.

You can’t express science or tech without art. If you can’t even

drum it up in your head as a picture or a word, you are with the

worms. Art is the voice.

Without a tool for speaking there is no voice, and without a voice

for expressing, there is no ability to make tools.

But this is the most basic stuff…

SO WHAT ISN’T BASIC ABOUT

ART AND TECH?

Ideas

But we all have those...

IN THE BEGINNING

NOT A CODE. JUST DA VINCI

MAKING

Painter, sculpture… yeah we

know that

Cartographer, botanist, mathe

matician, scientist, inventor, musici

an, writer, geologist, engineer..

This list goes on. No wonder there

is such mystique.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

HELICOPTER

AIRPLANE

THE GODFATHER OF P ERSP ECTIVE

AND P ROP ORTION

Before da Vinci, the

world was flat in

many ways

SO WHY IS HE STILL SO

COMPELLING?

Almost none of his inventions were explored in his time

Many don’t work now

The ones that do have been “discovered” by others

He is remembered for his paintings, of which there are only 15

Big secret: da Vinci was a slacker

ART AND TECH, BFFS.

OK, BUT WHY IS IT

IMPORTANT

Knowledge economies require both. Compare a vibrant work

culture to a restrictive one

Healthy society requires healthy culture as well as healthy economy

Imagine if every game was Pong. Games narratives haven’t

changed much. Game design has.

POLYMATHS

Descartes, Ben Franklin, Goethe, da Vinci, Galileo, Roger

Bacon, Pythagoras, Imhotep, Aristotle, Hypatia, Pascal, Newton, Schr

odinger, Assimov, Eco and Steve Jobs are all polymaths. They all had

depth of knowledge in arts, and sciences or maths.

If you think, the world of metaphor is the world of art. What of

Schrodinger’s unfortunate (maybe) cat?

YOU NEED IMAGINATION

IT’S ABOUT POSSIBILITY

BECOMING

. “Play is the highest form of research.” ~ Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is

limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination

embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and

understand.” – Einstein

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” - Einstein

R E L O C A T I O N A N D T R A N S F O R M A T I O N O F

M E M O RY

The piece is dynamic: the viewer gazing into it can transcend

time and space with an illusion that borders on holographic

when the viewer engages with it through moving themselves

around the piece. The top portion of the piece reflects a

distorted modern-reflecting-on-future whilst the foundation

of the sculpture gives you a clear gaze into the past. You can

be in a reconstructed space with the current, modern

concrete around you and witness the new blur to

meaningless and have a firm grasp of what the space used

to be in one simple interaction. You are inserted into

something that feels like the blurry future, the constructed

and treeful present and a very tangible, yet

ghostly, holographic, far-away and still beautiful feeling past.