Signs and Wonders (ePub)
Art & Culture in the Digital Age
(Sprache: Englisch)
Technology changes culture in all possible ways. In the external world and in our internal world, our feelings, our emotions, our judgment. And now there is a radical technology that is generating radical changes. When the powder was invented, opening the...
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Technology changes culture in all possible ways. In the external world and in our internal world, our feelings, our emotions, our judgment. And now there is a radical technology that is generating radical changes. When the powder was invented, opening the doors to fire arms, it must have been astounding, people may have felt at the brink of a catastrophe. The same with the steam machines being used in ships and trains. Speed was both frightening and exhilarating. And with the internal combustion engine there came almost limitless mobility - and it was huge and liberating. Current technology is even more impressive - because it has no physical bounds: it happens also inside our minds and bodies. This is immense - and all that is immense, Sophocles noted, may bring about a curse... Museums and art itself will change and are changing, the meaning of ethics is different from what it was a few decades ago, psychological issues are being addressed with the manipulation of images. It is a new world, it remains to be seen whether it is brave...
Autoren-Porträt von Teixeira Coelho
Teixeira Coelho is a Professor Emeritus at São Paulo University (Brazil) where he coordinates a study group on Computational Cultures and Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Studies. He has published a number of books on art, culture and cultural policy besides being a novelist (he won a Telecom Award for Literature in Portuguese). A former director of the internationally known Museum of Contemporary Art in São Paulo and MASP- São Paulo Art Museum, he has been invited to different universities all over the world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Teixeira Coelho
- 2021, 1. Auflage, 216 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Iluminuras
- ISBN-10: 6555191171
- ISBN-13: 9786555191172
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2021
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