Chris Robinson is an Art lecturer at the Nano-technology Center at the University of South Carolina, in U.S.A. His presentation at Technarte will take place on the 16th of April and it will analyse in-depth the role of the artists when exploring unidentified aspects of the technology through the artistic expression.
The artists´work often allows the finding of new and unexpected meanings that force us to reflect on the potential threats and bring about new points of view.
With the advent of the technological innovations, what started as a technology used for prosthesis, organ substitutions, biological improvements and robotic services, is now raising new dilemmas. The development goes so quickly that, as Bill Joys wrote on an article published on Wired on the year 2000, we could reach the point, when the machines of the near future “won’t need us”.
Chris Robinson will also talk about the double facets of the new artist and the artist/scientist, and the considerations in relation to our increasing dependency on science and technology.
