Art, Technology, and Nature
Here is a really cool slideshow from The New York Timesof some of the works of art at the MoMA’s “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibit.
I love this kind of merging or art, technology, and nature not only because it usually looks very cool but also because I think it says something about our own human connection to the world. Arguably all art is in some way based off of the natural world around us but advances in technology have allowed both scientists and artists to view the natural world in new ways. Once humanity was limited to only the senses we were endowed with but now we are able to observe things that even a hundred years ago we had no idea existed. From the very small to the utterly enormous we have expanded the range of our perception of the universe and as such our artistic expressions are given new material to work with. But not only does this expanded sense of the world and beyond give us material to work with for artistic purposes but it also allows for further increase in technology and science. The natural world seems to do things very efficiently and by observing natural processes humanity has the potential to increase it’s own productions.
I find it all to be very cool stuff.
~Nathaniel
Tags: art, science, technology
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