Saturday, March 15, 2014
Uniting Civic Technology with Arts as Civic Practice
HowlRound: It’s tempting to view technologists and socially engaged artists as being diametrically opposed cultural figures in this, our desperate late capitalist year of 2014. Of course, such social media-driven simplifications are ephemeral and reductive. They’re useful for manipulating pageviews or simplifying a rhetorical turn in a master’s thesis or two, but little else.
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I thoroughly applaud his insight into the vast amounts of a art-technology advancements and social changes that could take place because of the same. It seems like the stereotype of a technologically engaged person that only cares about corporate success is dying out, and that the opposite view of all artists as social change activists is over embellished some of the time. I whole-heartedly agree that both of the fields will be furthered by knowledge and conversation with the other, regardless of intent
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