Ethical and activist considerations of the technological artwork

David Cecchetto

pp. 15-25

in: Randy Adams, Steve Gibson, Stefan Müller Arisona (eds), Transdisciplinary digital art. sound, vision and the new screen, Berlin, Springer, 2008

Abstract

This article draws on the work of diverse scholars to explore the politico-theoretical implications of technology, both as an artifact and as a modality, in contemporary art. Understanding art, technology, culture, and politics as being reciprocally generative of one another, the presentation explores a critical framework through which we may view artworks in general as (de)mobilizing various and particular technological paradigms, allowing us to view the embedded and invisible assumptions of a work in the context of its cultural ramifications.