Digital Art and Technical Convergence: A Review of Silicon Remembers Carbon, an Exhibition

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Silicon Remembers Carbon, Artist: David Rokeby, 20 April to 10 June 2007, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ. Telephone: [phone]; Email: [email protected]. Exhibition web site: www.rokebyshow.org.uk

David Rokeby in Conversation, FACT, 7.00 pm, 30 April 2007. David Rokeby interviewed by Marilyn Deegan, 30 April 2007.

The computer and the internet are media of sharing, boundary crossing, and convergence par excellence and can permit the transcendence of boundaries of all kinds, between countries, institutions, societies, and disciplines. And yet, despite the possibilities offered to us by the technologies, we so rarely do reach out across the disciplines. Digital humanities and arts are of course areas of convergence in themselves, and some practitioners are polymaths who, in integrating technology into their creative space, make inspired and original works of art, and conceptual leaps in our understanding of machine, humanity, and the relationship between them. Just such a practitioner is David Rokeby.