This article made me think about how technology has changed over time. I thought of the way things used to be for my parents and grandparents and how things have changed over my lifetime. In a span of 20 years I’ve seen computers go from a green screen to something that has a crisp life like image that you almost cant leave home without. Now we have the cell phone which is a miniature version of the computer. GPS comes into play and is the next jump in technology. Now we are able to track what we want and be tracked ourselves. With that comes our responsive arts that takes the newest technologies and manipulates them into an art form. Artists now use me and you as pawns in their pieces. We can now touch screens and use our phones to control things from afar (Blinkenlights).
Reading about the different artists that changed the playing field of art put some things in perspective. Looking up the artists seeing their work and the time period they were produced made it more interesting. I liked looking at Rodchenko’s work because it had a lot of social commentary within it. He made posters did photography and sculpted. All of their work lead up to the art and technology we have today.
In Architecture, technology plays a big roll. Now architects have to think of media and how it will be placed within the space. Places like shopping centers, airports, hotels, and street corners all use projections, LCD screens, HDTV cameras to stimulate consumers. Surveillance and GPS are used to track people and is used to interact with them weather it be advertisement art or just a functional aspect of the building.
The same is happening in the gallery world. Artists are using the space around them to the fullest. Anything goes in the gallery and anything can be manipulated and used for the means of expression. Projectors are used in made up viewing rooms for people to soak up their work. Lights powered by sensors make the viewer apart of the piece. Cameras can surveillance people without them knowing so that the artist has control over where people go and what happens to them.
Artists are thinking like architects and are using technology and space to create work. Architects have to be creative and work with layers of data that need to be clean and flawless. The two mediums are different but have intentions that are similar. Technology is glueing them together and making them work together.