Art & Technology: Best Friends Forever

Terre Chartrand reveals the secret friendship between art and technology and it's all about creativity and creating.

Transcript

1. ART AND TECH ♥♥ BFFs ♥♥
2. ART
3. TECH
4. AHHHRT
5. ARCH
6. TART
7. E(C)H?
8. ART  Visual art  Theatre and performance  Writing – poetry, stories  Music and sound  Photography
9. TECH  Math  Sciences • Physics • Biology • Chemistry  Engineering
10. 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.
11. ZEUS • Lightning bolts • Cheated on Hera constantly • King of gods • Father of many • Not exactly a charmer • But hey, lightning bolts, yo
12. 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.
13. MEET THE BFFS • Meet Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania and Melpomene ,the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne and their teacher, Apollo. • Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
14. 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.
15. 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…
16. SO WHAT ISN’T BASIC ABOUT ART AND TECH? Ideas But we all have those...
19. IN THE BEGINNING
20. NOT A CODE. JUST DA VINCI MAKING
21.  Painter, sculpture… yeah we know that  Cartographer, botanist, mathematician, scientist, inventor, musician, writer, geologist, engineer.. This list goes on. No wonder there is such mystique. LEONARDO DA VINCI
23. HELICOPTER
24. AIRPLANE
25. THE GODFATHER OF PERSPECTIVE AND PROPORTION Before da Vinci, the world was flat in many ways
26. 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
27. ART AND TECH, BFFS. http://youtu.be/v86B9Nz_LVU
28. 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.
29. POLYMATHS  Descartes, Ben Franklin, Goethe, da Vinci, Galileo, Roger Bacon, Pythagoras, Imhotep, Aristotle, Hypatia, Pascal, Newton, Schrodinger, 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?
30. YOU NEED IMAGINATION
31. 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
32. R E L O C AT I O N A N D T R A N S F O R M AT 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. aYou 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.