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“What takes place in our lives is always reflected in art – and the
electronic revolution already has a large place in our lives”
Telecommunications and mobile phones will also be invaded by art.
That is what has happened with all media for thousand of years.
I have studied or worked with art in one way or another for 25
years. Where does this fascination comes from? What is it that
draws me to art – and what keeps me there I believe it is art’s
eternal ability to surprise which makes me continually curious.
What is hiding behind the next corner? What will artists do with a
new kind of medium? What possibilities will be open up by the next
generation of communication methods?
When I hear the words “art and technology” It is the early video
installations that I first think of: black and – white flickering images
that a few daredevils began using at the end of the 60's. Before that,
people carved in stone and wood, painted with oil on canvas and
with watercolor on paper – that was fine, we have grown used to
that and we accepted it. When Claude Monet and other
impressionists exhibited their first works in Paris in the 1800’s,
women were warned that the paintings were so out of focus that they
could cause viewers to feel sick…
Video Art, which was highly controversial 30 years ago, is now just
as well established a genre as sculpture, photograph or painting.
It takes time for a new form of expression to become integrated and
become part of what is known as art. Just as it takes time before new
technology – an invention, a medium, a product – is accepted and
integrated as an obvious part of everyday life, first by an avant-
garde, they by the others.
Can you be made dizzy by Jenny Holzer’s petroglyps in plasma?
Perhaps. But it will pass.
After video, the electronic explosion has arrived, with color TV,
satellite TV computer, the Internet, the wireless Internet, wireless
devices.
We will experience the same creative process involving these forms
of technology, as was previously the case with stone, paper or video.
Although I believe that this time the acceptance and integration will
come quickly.
What takes place in our lives is always reflected in art – and the
electronic revolution already has a large place in our lives.
(article extracted from the Modern, Museum in Stockholm website).