Re: How is technology changing art?

Description: No part of culture is impervious to technological influences, Cembalest says.

Question:  How is technology changing art?

Transcript: Obviously, there’s artists that are working with technology constantly in ways that I don’t even understand, in terms of the works they are making, the way they transmit work, the way--the work that actually exists on the internet, the way it exists as an avatar, I mean all the ways, the same ways the technology is influencing culture in general, I would say.

Question: Are we going to see anything new come out of art?

Transcript:  I think there is always something new that comes out of art. Sometimes you see a painting that is new, and it blows your mind. It does not have to be technology to make it new. It can be a certain point of view, it can be - I mean there is an artist that shows the Pace Gallery named Tara Danovan who makes these amazing pieces out of styrofoam cups, and the way that she puts them together is mind-blowing. I guess that’s new. Who thought of making these clouds out of styrofoam cups? I mean what’s new and good is anything that blows your mind in the end.

Recorded on: 1/14/08