Ten dreams of technology

In the final reading of Network Media, (whoooo! finally), Steve Dietz talks about the  Ten Dreams of Technology. In this article, Dietz mentions that the “dreams” have been developed overtime and questioned by artists throughout the history of art and technology. There’s just something about a future that these “dreams” hold for the future of technology and art, even if “it’s not yet determined”. The collection of dreams includes: Symbiosis, Emergence, Immersion, World Peace, Transparency, Flows, Open Work, Other, NewArt, and Hacking.

What I found was compelling about the article was the dream of transparency. Dietz refers to transparency as a “corollary to issues of communication” also referring to “Happenings” or “Cinema verite” which breaks down to codes of theater and film, ultimately, to present life as art without any form of camouflaging. In addition, he shared with us about what what life_sharing project was about. Mentioning that life_sharing has little sharing of the idea of exposure, but more about perception. (The best line ever written)- recognizing life as art – as a  spectacle.

I’d like to share this with u : Marina Abramović is a New York-based Serbian performance artist. Marina’s work are a retrospect of her life in the form of art. The video which you are about to see is about an exhibition that she had done, called the Artist is present. Apparently it was mentioned that it was the most physically and emotionally demanding work she has ever done. The artist is present fulfills what Dietz talks about transparency – about how art becomes life itself (vice versa) in this case, how performance becomes life itself.

“I test the imits of myself in order to transform myself,” she says, “but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. It goes back to them in a different way. This is why people in the audience often cry or become angry or whatever. A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.”

Marina’s work of art is a spectacle of it’s own.