I remember some years ago artists would receive grants to explore new technologies and of course that still transpires but the new trend is the polar opposite. Artists reviving old technologies, lost traditions and pre colonial culture.

Of course sometimes there is a mix of both new technology meeting First Nations to create new ways of understanding technologies’ role in cultural stories and song lines. A way of taking ownership out of corporate hands.

You have to be careful using the word corporate because really it is techno-feudal and corporate funding helps get the art out there. Sometimes I see the vision of technology as a fantasy.

It is meant to signal a post-human world where you can observe the symbols (screens) and parts of the technology (wires, rods, aluminium housing) that make you primarily an observer of a world you can’t inhabit but wish to inhabit via fantasies.

You imagine it is at your leisure, that it serves you but it serves ideas that can only exist in clinical environments. The process of production is only finite though it claims to be more than it is. The chains of meaning are deeply rooted in culture but not in the natural world.

The old world we say is always under attack, it has been replaced by technology yet technology is severely limited. The limits will become more and more apparent even though the apparatus claims otherwise.