Your Urban Environment

Your urban environment aims to recreate the experience of a modern city implementing the radical transformation that modern technology has now reinvented city scapes; more specifically how it has significantly effected the way we now perceive colour and light .

The Impact of the Evolution of Digital Technology on the Arts:

Contemporary art has been greatly influenced by the rapid development in digital technology and by the astonishing progression in the introduction of new, more attractive and tougher materials that artists can work with. Both these innovations have expanded horizons of creativity and opened new artistic frontiers. They have also allowed contemporary artists to reduce time spent in the actual execution of artwork to a minimum thereby freeing them to focus more on contemplation, creativity and developing groundbreaking ideas, as well as sound preparation for artwork. 

throughout the industrial and post-industrial periods, technology has become so ubiquitous that it has been said that we now live in technology, surrounded by technological systems and dependant on them. I am not interested specifically in how things work technologically, rather than how they work culturally. How do they affect the manner in which we think about ourselves and the world? Do they bring new cultural possibilities into being? 

The historical period involved – from the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty first – embraces rapid and large-scale technological developments; the growth of industrialism and urbanism, the explosion of mass media, the shift to information economies and globalization. The technologies used to create art have themselves changed rapidly. We shall be inquiring into the role of art, in its many forms, in this period of profound transition. Does art reflect changes in technology and social organization? Does it respond to them? Does it engage with them, does it influence them? Is there any continuity between modernism and postmodernism, or do they represent radically different aesthetic orientations? Finally, what have artists had to say about technology and the societies in which it operates?