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This article draws on the work of diverse scholars to explore the politico-theoretical implications of technology, both as an artifact and as a modality, in contemporary art. Understanding art, technology, culture, and politics as being reciprocally generative of one another, the presentation explores a critical framework through which we may view artworks in general as (de)mobilizing various and particular technological paradigms, allowing us to view the embedded and invisible assumptions of a work in the context of its cultural ramifications.
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Cecchetto, D. (2008). Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork. In: Adams, R., Gibson, S., Arisona, S.M. (eds) Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79486-8_3
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