Art and Technology

I was recently posed with the question of what is the meaning of art and technology. At first, I thought that was a pretty simple question and one that I thought I could answer pretty easily without much thought put into it. However, the more I thought about it, the more it quickly became a question that had no simple answer that could just be written down. Instead, art and technology are slowly becoming interchangeable words in their own respects. In today's modern age, it's rather hard to find new art that wasn't created with the assistance of technology. This could be anything from using Photoshop to enhance a photograph or using the internet to order oil paints. Just as technology has become a part of our everyday lives, technology has now integrated itself into art, making some aspects of it easier and other areas more complex especially in the methods that are needed to do something. And it's not just using technology to help create art, art is being made from the use of the technology itself. Radar and sonar make images on a paper comprised of lines. This, if the artist who makes it says it is, is art. Because of technology, art is now appearing in more places than it ever was before and it makes it even easier for artists to share their works with others across the world. Need people in china to see your painting but you're in Germany? Internet is there to help you. It's amazing to see that something that was once avoided in the art world is now being readily embraced as the new standard and it will be exciting to see where it goes from there.