NeMe: Trouble at the Interface 2.0 Response

In reading NeMe: Trouble at the Interface by Erkki Huhtamo, it resembled the article Digital Media and Contemporary Art in that both wrote about pieces they have seen and the connection they see between contemporary art and technology. NeMe: Trouble at the Interface, though, was a bit more difficult to understand because the authors points were scattered around the paper and were difficult to follow. In his points that I was able to follow, though, I agree that “in a wider sense “interactive media” is an outcome of the history of the human / machine relationship.” Humans are used to dealing with technology in a daily sense, and I think that if something such as art has technology, the relationship between it and humans is likely to happen since humans are familiar and like technology. Technology is seen as an advanced way of dealing with things, so art has an ‘advanced’ sense if it has some sort of technology or interactivity done.