Janet Echelman Quotes

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.

When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.