The Fourth Lecture

This lecture was full of big aristocratic words that left me bewildered for the most part. The speaker was Philip Glahn, he expounded on art and technology's relationship, giving some examples from history of artists using technology to improve their art. Philip claimed that a devision of art and tech is a myth and that they have always been and will always be intwined. According to Glahn, when art and tech are separated a de-skilling occurs. The longer people try to separate the two the less skilled they become. I don't see how that is true, if an artist relies on only his hand to make a straight line instead of using a ruler he will become more skilled. I do agree that you cannot separate art and technology, the smarter we get the more ways we invent to produce art. Cavemen didn't have cameras and if we refused to allow cameras into the art world we would loose a major facet of art.