Steve Dietz

Ten Dreams of Technology

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Statement

This article presents the ten dreams of technology that frame the author/curator's selection of ten new media artworks. The "dreams" or themes presented by the author have been developed and/or questioned by artists throughout the history of the intersection of art and technology. This history emerges through artworks that the author describes as containing a "compelling vitality that we must admire." The collection of dreams includes; Symbiosis, Emergence, Immersion, World Pease, Transparency, Flows, Open Work, Other, New Art, and Hacking. The author notes that these dreams of technology have a future, even if it not yet determined.

Published in Leonardo, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2002, pp. 509-522 as part of Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time