2023/05/05

Tina Rivers Ryan Highlights Bias at Intersection of Art and Technology

● 05/05/2023
“We become fixated on the affordances of a software program or the politics of a database; we even classify works according to the tools with which they were made, unintentionally reviving largely outmoded notions of medium-specificity.”
– Buffalo AKG Art Museum curator Tina Rivers Ryan, on the “intersection of art and technology” where classics like Charles Csuri and James Shaffer’s 1967 Sine Curve Man are valued primarily for their technical traits. “I wonder if our focus on how these works are made tends to inhibit our ability to also fully experience them as art, pushing us away instead of drawing us closer.”
Brooklyn Rail
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