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Giving life a shape


Novel ways of thinking about the digital world are needed

perhaps the arts can help

Art can help us get to grips with the digital world

One of the more interesting shifts in the technology world over the last quarter century has been the way that cultural organisations have gone from being the late adopters, inheriting office-oriented computer systems from business and making do with them, to being those leading the digital revolution in many areas.


in working through the creative potential of new technologies artists of all types are helping us to find new ways to think about these tools and working out how to integrate them into our wider cultural and commercial practice

They are helping us to explore the latest chapter in the ongoing conversation between human psychology and the capabilities of modern technology

It quickly became clear that the network revolution is already happening in the arts