{"id":360,"date":"2010-11-19T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-11-19T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:23:35","slug":"what_technology_wants_more_sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/11\/what_technology_wants_more_sea\/","title":{"rendered":"What Technology Wants: More Seats At the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogger and sometimes Mind the Gap commenter Brian Rosen has been following along with us this week for Book Club IV and was even inspired enough to play along at home<\/a> on his own excellent Music vs. Theater<\/a> site. He was kind enough to drop me a line, and I’m sorry we didn’t have him with us all week. <\/p>\n

Just so discussion generated by our little pow-wow here was linked up, I asked Brian if we could include a bit of his analysis in this space, and this is what he sent along in response. <\/p>\n

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[Kelly suggests] an inevitability in technological advances, the
\nincandescent lightbulb was going to happen even if Edison never
\nexisted. The direction of this inevitable flow of technology, if you
\nbelieve in it, could be characterized as what technology ‘wants’ to
\nbe. Lightbulbs WILL happen because they suit technological needs,
\n(which in turn emerge from biological needs).<\/p>\n

and the heart of the matter (the area I’m most interested in):<\/p>\n

…Kelly misses a real opportunity. How do styles of expression
\nevolve? Are there inevitabilities in schools and styles and genre? Is
\nart directed? Convergent? Would minimalism have existed if Glass and
\nReich hadn’t been around? If we’re going by an evolutionary model,
\nwould that imply that art designed to be most widely consumed is the
\ntruest expression of what art wants? Or is longevity the metric? What
\ndoes ART want?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read Brian’s entire response post here<\/a>. I hope you’ll be able to join us full time for the next round of MTG book club, Brian! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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