Technology is defined as a set of techniques specific to a field.
In this sense, a work of art is a technology.
A sensitive technology.
“Techne”, from ancient Greek meaning “art”, “skill” or “craft” and logos, from “speech” or “language”.
The word technology comes from the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) téchnē (τέχνη), “art”, “skill”, or “craft” and -logos (λόγος), “Word”, “language”, ability to communicate.
In its primary sense, the term technology therefore designates the capacity to provide a discourse on an art (here “art” designates an area of competence).
Furthermore, in the 19th century, Jacob Bigelow (Harvard professor, physician and botanist) generalized its use to suggest the convergence to be restored between the arts (technè) and the sciences (logos): “a convergence compromised then by the emerging anxiety of an impossible articulation of scientific knowledge fragmenting with its diversification, and of the arts necessarily locked into a tradition.”
Two centuries later, this dichotomy between arts and sciences still exists in people's minds.
And yet…
Abstract art, through its expression of pure and natural geometric forms (cf. https://lnkd.in/eZZStKgi ) is the alliance between pure geometric form and pictorial plastic research.
Art must not remain frozen in its microcosm but tend towards a holistic reception of its message.
