Art is Technology: Technology is Art

The World’s Greatest Intuitive Artist

Art consists of those sciences and technologies that are self-justifying, that delight the apprehension of the beholder.

Science and technology consist of those arts that allow us to understand and alter our circumstances.

Stravinsky was quite correct in calling himself a sound engineer; Jacob Bronowski was equally justified in calling Newton and Einstein great artists. There are demarcations; but there are also overlaps.

The criteria for judging art can only be subjective or statistical. One can say subjectively that the artwork delights oneself, or one can say statistically that it delights x per cent of the population. Saying anything beyond this is the piffle and humbug of professional critics justifying their jobs.

The World’s Greatest Sound Engineer

The criteria for judging science and technology are objective and sometimes also statistical. One can say that certain sciences have objectively enhanced life, and that others have been a blight and a pestilence; and one can estimate the percentage of objective benefit or objective harm in a given technology at a given time.

Artists who cannot speak science are partially illiterate; scientists who cannot speak art are partially illiterate.