is visual art an attempt to investigate reality and expose the true nature of things?
can technology provide some help in the process of discovering the truth?
can a sophisticated machine extend the reach of human perception?
what is reality, how deep do we need to peel the onion to find the truth?

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni asked himself and the viewers all these questions about 40 years ago in the movie Blowup

• Software system programming has traditionally been arena for science and engineering. Can we compare programming with an artistic process?

Here you have a navigable map of the town of Trondheim.

http://www.trondheim.com/multimedia/kart/midtbyen.swf

Trondheim is Norway’s technology town, like Torino (Turin) in Italy. When you drive “autostrada” to Torino, you read “benvenuti a Torino, citta’ della Tecnologia avanzata” (welcome to Torino, the town of advanced technology). How do you recognize a technology Town when walking in it? Torino is my third town, after Pisa and Trondheim.

From

http://www.zkm.de:81/futurecinema/hoberman_werk_e.html

Perry Hoberman
The Sub-Division of the Electric Light, 1996

The negative power of technology is in that technology makes those who do not have technology even less powerful. I think of third world, old people and all of us who must change our PC’s all the time because we MUST have modern technology.

A program, or a piece of lambda-calculus is like a whichever  piece of text. You can even hand write it on paper.

http://www.8081.org/

(get from Anna Notaro)

my interest for art starting from IT starts from the need to render, sometimes, computer science free of technology power. CS used to be totally technology free when I used to study computer science twenty years ago.

Main building at the Technology campus in Trondheim, in Jugend style. When I first came to Trondheim in 1989 I thought it was a Church.

Corriere della sera has a section dedicated to art and technology today

It is about pictures taken with cellular phones. Even if you do not understand Italian...worth a look.