“To understand art, I propose, we need to look at it against the background of technology. Artists make stuff, after all:…
“To understand art, I propose, we need to look at it against the background of technology. Artists make stuff, after all: pictures, sculptures, performances, songs. And art has always been bound up with manufacture and craft, with tinkering and artifice. Art, however, is not itself one of our technologies; art presupposes technology in something like the way irony presupposes straight talk. Technology — practices of making, the harnessing of knowledge for this purpose — is no contribution to art; it is its precondition.”— Noë, Alva. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2015.