1. ART AND TECH
♥♥ BFFs ♥♥

2. ART

3. TECH

4. AHHHRT

5. ARCH

6. TART

7. E(C)H?

8. ART
 Visual art
 Theatre and performance
 Writing – poetry, stories
 Music and sound
 Photography

9. TECH
 Math
 Sciences
• Physics
• Biology
• Chemistry
 Engineering

10. FOR THE SAKE OF
CLARITY
…an instance of art and technology as opposed to the idea of
art or technology
This isn’t about art as an object of consumption, or tech as a device.

11. ZEUS
• Lightning bolts
• Cheated on Hera constantly
• King of gods
• Father of many
• Not exactly a charmer
• But hey, lightning bolts, yo

12. MNEMOSYNE
• Goddess of memory
• Zeus’s aunt (keeping it in the
family)
• She invented languages and
words.
• Yeah, she came up with
documentation. She also came up
with Python.

13. MEET THE BFFS
• Meet
Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Poly
hymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Ur
ania and Melpomene ,the
daughters of Zeus and
Mnemosyne and their
teacher, Apollo.
• Daughters of Zeus and
Mnemosyne.

14. MEET APOLLO
• God of sun and light, logic and
reason, truth and poetry
• Teacher of the muses
• Slept with ALL THE THINGS
• You want enlightenment? Call
Apollo. 1.900.im.so.hot.

15. SO EVERYONE KNOWS
 You can’t make art without technology. Some poor fool had to mix
cobalt pigment with egg yolk to make paint. Technology is the tool.
 You can’t express science or tech without art. If you can’t even
drum it up in your head as a picture or a word, you are with the
worms. Art is the voice.
 Without a tool for speaking there is no voice, and without a voice
for expressing, there is no ability to make tools.
But this is the most basic stuff…

16. S O W H AT I S N ’ T BA S I C A B O U T
A RT A N D T E C H ?
Ideas
But we all have those...

19. IN THE BEGINNING

20. N O T A C O D E . J U S T DA V I N C I
MAKING

21. LEONARDO DA VINCI
 Painter, sculpture… yeah we
know that
 Cartographer, botanist, mathe
matician, scientist, inventor, musici
an, writer, geologist, engineer..
This list goes on. No wonder there
is such mystique.

23. HELICOPTER

24. AIRPLANE

25. T H E G O D FAT H E R O F P E R S P E C T I V E
A N D P RO P O R T I O N
Before da Vinci, the
world was flat in
many ways

26. SO WHY IS HE STILL SO
COMPELLING?
 Almost none of his inventions were explored in his time
 Many don’t work now
 The ones that do have been “discovered” by others
 He is remembered for his paintings, of which there are only 15
 Big secret: da Vinci was a slacker

27. ART AND TECH, BFFS.

28. OK, BUT WHY IS IT
IMPORTANT
 Knowledge economies require both. Compare a vibrant work
culture to a restrictive one
 Healthy society requires healthy culture as well as healthy economy
 Imagine if every game was Pong. Games narratives haven’t
changed much. Game design has.

29. POLYMATHS
 Descartes, Ben Franklin, Goethe, da Vinci, Galileo, Roger
Bacon, Pythagoras, Imhotep, Aristotle, Hypatia, Pascal, Newton, Schr
odinger, Assimov, Eco and Steve Jobs are all polymaths. They all had
depth of knowledge in arts, and sciences or maths.
 If you think, the world of metaphor is the world of art. What of
Schrodinger’s unfortunate (maybe) cat?

30. YOU NEED IMAGINATION

31. IT’S ABOUT POSSIBILITY
BECOMING
 . “Play is the highest form of research.” ~ Einstein
 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination
embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand.” – Einstein
 “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” - Einstein

32. RELOCATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF
M E M O RY
The piece is dynamic: the viewer gazing into it can transcend
time and space with an illusion that borders on holographic
when the viewer engages with it through moving themselves
around the piece. The top portion of the piece reflects a
distorted modern-reflecting-on-future whilst the foundation
of the sculpture gives you a clear gaze into the past. You can
be in a reconstructed space with the current, modern
concrete around you and witness the new blur to
meaningless and have a firm grasp of what the space used
to be in one simple interaction. You are inserted into
something that feels like the blurry future, the constructed
and treeful present and a very tangible, yet
ghostly, holographic, far-away and still beautiful feeling past.