Towards the Third Culture: Intersections of Arts, Science, and Technology
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Hybrid Cultures
Presentation Title:
- Towards the Third Culture: Intersections of Arts, Science, and Technology
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Abstract:
Panel: Hybrid Cultures
One of the most important factors of the hybrid condition of contemporary arts is the complex relationship between arts and sciences and technologies. Such relations develop a new concept of third culture, not based – as in the theory of John Brockman – on the conflict between traditional humanistic values and scientific systems, but on the interactions between them. I will analyse the development of this concept, from C. P. Snow’s Theory of Two Cultures, in relationship to recent processes creating a new vision of hybrid culture.